Academic Language Mastery: Conversational Discourse in Context

✍ Scribed by Jeff Zwiers, Ivannia Soto

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Series: Academic Language Mastery
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

By now it’s a given: if we’re to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today’s content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher’s need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is conversational discourse. Here, Jeff Zwiers reveals the power of academic conversation in helping students develop language, clarify concepts, comprehend complex texts, and fortify thinking and relational skills.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction to the Book Series
2. What Research Says About Conversational Discourse
3. Classroom Applications for Conversational Discourse
4. Learning From Classroom Examples of Conversational Discourse
5. Assessing Conversational Discourse
6. Conclusions, Challenges, and Connections
Epilogue: The Vision
References
Index