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The Effect Of Morphological Strategies Training For English Language Learners, Qizhen Deng, Guy Trainin
The Effect Of Morphological Strategies Training For English Language Learners, Qizhen Deng, Guy Trainin
Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of morphological strategies training for English language learners from an Intensive English Program with different English proficiency levels. A secondary goal was to investigate how the training influences their cognitive load during morphological analysis tasks. Findings from 22 participants revealed that morphological strategies training positively affects the morphological awareness of ELLs and reduces the cognitive load of ELLs for all types of morphological tasks regardless of their English proficiency level: sentence completion, analogy, break down words, and meaning guess.
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Unpacking The Language Of Stem For English Language Learners, Kristin Lems, Jason Stegemoller
Unpacking The Language Of Stem For English Language Learners, Kristin Lems, Jason Stegemoller
Faculty Publications
This article is a follow-up to a workshop we presented at STEMTech 2013 entitled “Unpacking the language of STEM for English language learners.” We chose this topic because, in our roles as co-directors of the ESL STEM Success Grant (a 5 year national professional development grant from the Office of English Language Acquisition, U.S. Department of Education), we have been exploring ways that teachers across the grade levels can rise to the challenge of more effectively teaching English language learners (ELLs) in the STEM disciplines. (STEM, of course, stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.) When teachers embed their understandings …