English Language Development

An important point about validity in formative assessment concerns the consequences of assessment use. Because action resulting ...

Figure 8.13. Key Points in Technical Quality of Assessments: Short-Cycle Formative Assessment Evidence gathered by the teacher ...

Works Cited Abedi, Jamal. 2002. “Assessing and Accommodations of English Language Learners: Issues, Concerns and Recommendations ...

Bunch, George C., Amanda Kibler, and Susan Pimental. 2012. “Realizing Opportunities for English Learners in the Common Core Engl ...

Gibbons, Pauline. 2009. English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone. Portsmouth, NH: Heine ...

Jenkins, Joseph R. 2003. Candidate Measures for Screening At-Risk Students. Paper presented at the National Research Center on L ...

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 2005. Formative Assessment: Improving Student Learning in Seconda ...

———. 2005b. Will Commercialization Enable or Destroy Formative Assessment? (Original title: Formative assessment: Caveat emptor) ...

Page Chapter at a Glance 880 Introduction 881 California’s Diversity 882 Standard English Learners 884 African American English ...

Introduction A mong the core principles guiding the development of this ELA/ELD Framework is that schooling should help all stud ...

The state of California recognizes its deep responsibility to ensure that each and every student receives a world-class 21st cen ...

Standard English Learners Standard English learners (SELs) are native speakers of English who are ethnic minority students (e.g. ...

This is a complex problem, because teachers are often not aware of their implicit expectations for the ways children will use la ...

African American English Speakers Some African Americans speak African American English (AAE), also termed African American Vern ...

terms valued in school and therefore may be unfamiliar to many teachers and language researchers. She contends that, “(g)ranted, ...

Chicana/Chicano English Speakers Some Mexican Americans and other Latinas/Latinos who live in predominantly bilingual social set ...

greatly expanded over the past thirty years (Barrera and Garza de Cortes 1997, Nieto 1997). In their stories and poetry, authors ...

The framing of nonstandard dialects of English and code switching as cultural and linguistic assets positions traditionally non- ...

Age: It is important to note how ELs learn the English language at different stages of their cognitive development. Most notabl ...

Progress in ELD: Regardless of their age, primary language and literacy backgrounds, and time in U.S. schools, all ELs should m ...