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Academic Language Proficiency

Academic Language Proficiency is a type of language proficiency characterized by the ability to comprehend and produce the decontextualized, cognitively demanding, and discipline-specific language used in school-based literacy and content learning, as distinct from everyday interpersonal communication.

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Publications

53.5K

Citations

1.9K

Authors

777

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

283

Variants

Academic Language Competence

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Publications

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Executive Summary

Gordon Guyatt, Elie A. Akl, Mark Crowther et al. · CHEST Journal · 2012 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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American Journal of Kidney Diseases · 2006 · 828 citations · Full text

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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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Obesity Research · 1998 · 754 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. RL
    Richard L. Sparks

    Mount St. Joseph University, United States

    10 publications · 540 citations

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  2. LG
    Leonore Ganschow

    Miami University, United States

    9 publications · 524 citations

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  3. DY
    Doğan Yüksel

    Kocaeli Üniversitesi, Türkiye

    8 publications · 493 citations

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  4. PU
    Paola Uccelli

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    9 publications · 923 citations

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  5. AL
    Alison L. Bailey

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    8 publications · 273 citations

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Institutions

777

  1. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    14 h-index

    17 publications

    970 citations

  2. Educational Testing Service

    Princeton, United States

    14 h-index

    32 publications

    884 citations

  3. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    1.6K citations

  4. Miami University

    Oxford, United States

    9 h-index

    20 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    259 citations

  6. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    914 citations

  7. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    2.8K citations

  8. Center for Applied Linguistics

    Washington D.C., United States

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    721 citations

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Venues

  1. Language Testing

    26 publications · 1.7K citations

    21

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  2. TESOL Quarterly

    21 publications · 3.3K citations

    17

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  3. Foreign Language Annals

    FLA · 22 publications · 820 citations

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  4. Modern Language Journal

    MLJ · 20 publications · 1.3K citations

    16

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  5. Journal of English for Academic Purposes

    14 publications · 906 citations

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