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Academic Language in Second Language Learning (Hc)

Academic Language in Second Language Learning (Hc)

Faltis, Christian J.
Arias, M. Beatriz

Hardcover

Series: Research in Second Language Learning

General ReferenceBilingual EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1623961157
ISBN13: 9781623961152
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Jan 22 2013
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Language in academic settings, also referred to academic language, has gained attention in the field of second language learning owing to new understandings of the complexities of language inherent in learning academic content, and new efforts to assess English learners' language proficiency in the context of school learning. The concept of academic language as distinct from social language has been in the academic literature since the mid-1950s, and surfaced as a major construct in the field of bilingual education in the 1980s. Many readers will be familiar with the ideas of BICS and CALP, first introduced by Jim Cummins in the 1980s. This book presents a critique of academic language as a separable construct from social language, and introduces current research efforts to understand how English learners interact, interpret, and show understanding of language in academic contexts in ways that re-think and go beyond the distinction between social and academic language.

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