The Role of Language Learning Progressions in Improved Instruction and Assessment of English Language Learners

Autor/inn/en	Bailey, Alison L.; Heritage, Margaret
Titel	The Role of Language Learning Progressions in Improved Instruction and Assessment of English Language Learners
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 48 (2014) 3, S.480-506 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
DOI	10.1002/tesq.176
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Learning Processes; English Language Learners; Formative Evaluation; Elementary School Students; Secondary School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Learning process; Lernprozess; Sekundarschüler
Abstract	This article addresses theoretical and empirical issues relevant for the development and evaluation of language learning progressions. The authors explore how learning progressions aligned with new content standards can form a central basis of efforts to describe the English language needed in school contexts for learning, instruction, and assessment. Learning progressions, in contrast with standards, can articulate incremental growth and are positioned to support teachers' formative assessment practices with K-12 students who are acquiring English as an additional language. Extending learning progressions that have taken hold in other areas of student learning to language learning and development requires conceptualizing (1) in what ways language progresses, and (2) how language growth can be supported by educators. The authors illustrate both considerations with the example of a new language learning progression and formative assessment initiative that are based on the characterization of explanations generated by students with a wide range of experiences with English. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10