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A growing body of literature has highlighted the importance of disciplinary and interdisciplinary language teaching for ESOL learners. With the emergence of new standards, which emphasize the integration of various language skills and competencies across content areas, the need for teachers to understand and be able to effectively teach ESOL learne...
This article reports on findings from a multiple case study investigating the nature of educators’ approaches toward monitoring English language learners’ (ELLs) performance and using data to improve instruction and apply appropriate interventions. Six New York elementary schools where ELLs’ performance was better than predicted (i.e. odds-beating)...
Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the ways writing may engage adolescents in higher levels of epistemic complexity (i.e., postulating causes, reasons and other relations or theories related to scientific phenomena), yet in secondary science classrooms, writing has primarily been used for assessing students' content knowledge. Em...
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for literacy emphasize that writing skills are critical to building knowledge in science. However, it is challenging for some adolescent ELLs to gain expertise in science writing due to a variety of factors including their prior writing experiences in their nati...
This study examined the nature and frequency of error in high school native English speaker (L1) and English learner (L2) writing. Four main research questions were addressed: Are there significant differences in students’ error rates in English language arts (ELA) and social studies? Do the most common errors made by students differ in ELA and soc...