sequester
to isolate, seclude, or set apart
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WIDA edition also offers example topics that are pulled directly from a content standard in the common core and provide teachers with the types of support and scaffolding of academic language that they need depending on students' proficiency.
Lesli give various examples covering the WIDA and goes in depth covering what it does to the readers. She covers the oppositions side before explaining why her side is correct making her writing even stronger
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World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment consortium.
dictates alot of things language education based k-12 in 29 states in america
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That approach, some experts say, discourages many language learners from engaging more with English, especially orally, for fear of being corrected.
My personal experiences make me side with this argument. Growing up as a non-English speaking family I've always felt like writing with harsh grammer and vocabulary expectations made writing feel boring and made me steer from it.
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But must academic language be explicitly taught to English-learners and other struggling students?
Author uses a question to make the reader think to themselves.
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"Who is teaching them the language they need for these demands?" said Katherine M. Kinsella, an adjunct education professor at San Francisco State University and a frequent consultant to districts and schools on instruction for English-learners.
Author introduces the evidence by showing the quality of the source she used. I will aim to use this method in my writing.
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And it's not just English-learners who may struggle with academic language. Many native English-speakers also fall short of grasping it because it's not what they hear at home.
Lesli make a very strong argument here that I might save for future writing. It never occurred to me that native speakers also struggle with "academic language". This shows that academic language is difficult to everyone and schools pushing one correct language could be a mistake
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. For English-language learners, acquiring academic language is often the highest hurdle to clear before they can be deemed proficient in English and be able to fully engage in the kind of rich and rigorous content necessary to succeed later in college and a professional work life.
The premise of "acquiring academic language" confuses me. Society pushes a standard of using complex english in high level academic texts. However, in this article Lesli is using relatively simple grammer and it makes her point stronger to her audience.
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academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, everyday language one needs to communicate effectively in most situations.
Useful quote I can use in my paper and one of Lesli key points in her essay.
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