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Academic Language Development

Academic Language Development is the process by which bilingual learners acquire and refine the cognitively demanding, decontextualized, and discipline-specific linguistic competencies that enable them to access, participate in, and demonstrate learning within formal academic contexts.

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Functions of Language in the Classroom

R. G. Jobling, Courtney B. Cazden · Man · 1973 · 1.3K citations

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The Language of Schooling: A Functional Linguistics Perspective

Don K. Philpot, Mary J. Schleppegrell · Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l éducation · 2005 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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The CALLA Handbook: Implementing the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach

Craig Dicker, Anna Uhl Chamot, J. Michael O’Malley · TESOL Quarterly · 1994 · 942 citations

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Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency, Linguistic Interdependence, the Optimum Age Question and Some Other Matters. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 19.

Jim Cummins · 1979 · 824 citations

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Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition

William E. Nagy, Dianna Townsend · Reading Research Quarterly · 2012 · 815 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JC
    Jim Cummins

    University of Toronto, Canada

    12 publications · 2.7K citations

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  2. MJ
    Mary J. Schleppegrell

    University of Michigan, United States

    9 publications · 2.6K citations

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  3. MS
    Merrill Swain

    Institute for Christian Studies, Canada

    8 publications · 624 citations

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  4. GC
    George C. Bunch

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    8 publications · 396 citations

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  5. AL
    Alison L. Bailey

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    8 publications · 286 citations

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Institutions

669

  1. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    12 h-index

    28 publications

    1K citations

  2. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    763 citations

  3. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    2.1K citations

  4. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    735 citations

  5. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    943 citations

  6. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    2.1K citations

  7. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    340 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of English for Academic Purposes

    30 publications · 1.9K citations

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  2. System

    25 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. TESOL Quarterly

    25 publications · 4K citations

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  4. English for Specific Purposes

    19 publications · 1.2K citations

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  5. Modern Language Journal

    MLJ · 23 publications · 1.6K citations

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