By James E. Alatis
This quantity examines linguistics, language acquisition, and language edition, emphasizing their implications for instructor schooling and language schooling. A majority of the essays examine matters in moment language acquisition, dealing in particular with inexperienced persons and teachers, or targeting the bigger social and societal context during which studying and acquisition ensue. themes highlighted contain the present and infrequently arguable debate over bilingual schooling, language version, and the earlier, current, and destiny position of linguistics in language pedagogy.
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In general, on tests < previous page page_33 next page > < previous page page_34 next page > Page 34 like the Language Assessment Scales, students score as fully fluent in both languages by fourth or fifth grade. Spanish speakers tend to reach the highest scores in oral English somewhat before English speakers reach the same level in Spanish. Site A administers the Language Assessment Scales-Oral (LAS-O) to measure English language development, for example. This program reported that, by third grade, 78 percent of students scored at the highest level (5) and the other 22 percent were at level 4, with both native speakers of English and Spanish performing comparably.
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