Developing Literacy in Second Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth

By E. Farrell. 2008

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Beyond Vocabulary: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Academic-Language Proficiency and Its Association With Reading Comprehension (2015, background): “…in “the language of schooling” (Schleppegrell, 2001, 2004), has increasingly become a topic of interest in educational circles because of its hypothesized contribution to reading comprehension and content-area achievement (Abedi & Herman, 2010; August and Shanahan, 2006; Biancarosa & Snow, 2006).”
Language diversity in education: evolving from multilingual education to functional multilingual learning (2014, background): “However, in recent years new best-evidence syntheses (August & Shanahan, 2006; Genesee et al., 2006) and meta-analyses (Francis et al., 2006; Rolstad et al., 2005) seem to have tipped the balance slightly in favour of strong types of bilingual education programmes.”
Core academic language skills: An expanded operational construct and a novel instrument to chart school-relevant language proficiency in preadolescent and adolescent learners (2014, background): “…or exclusively decoding the words on the page but understanding the meanings of words and comprehending the syntactic and discourse constructions in which words are embedded (August & Hakuta, 1997; August & Shanahan, 2006; Biancarosa & Snow, 2004; Lesaux, Crosson, Kieffer, & Pierce, 2010).”