Browsing by Author "Uccelli, Paola"
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Beyond Chronicity: Evaluation and Temporality in Spanish-Speaking Children’s Personal Narratives
Uccelli, Paola (Cambridge University Press, 2008)This chapter focuses on Spanish-speaking children’s evaluation and temporality in the construction of personal narratives. The study analyzes 32 personal narratives produced by 8 Andean Spanish-speaking children from the ... -
Beyond the Fourth Grade Glass Ceiling: Understanding Reading Comprehension Among Bilingual/Bimodal Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Scott, Jessica A. (2015-05-08)Research has found that, on average, deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students graduate from high school reading at the fourth grade level (Allen, 1986). Additionally, DHH children of deaf parents (Charrow & Fletcher, 1974) ... -
Beyond Vocabulary: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Academic-Language Proficiency and Its Association With Reading Comprehension
Uccelli, Paola; Galloway, Emily Phillips; Barr, Christopher D.; Meneses, Alejandra; Dobbs, Christina L. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Despite a longstanding awareness of academic language as a pedagogically relevant research area, the construct of academic language proficiency, understood as a more comprehensive set of skills than just academic vocabulary, ... -
The Challenge of Academic Language
Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; Uccelli, Paola (Cambridge University Press, 2009) -
Children's Early Decontextualized Talk Predicts Academic Language Proficiency in Midadolescence
Uccelli, Paola; Demir-Lira, Özlem Ece; Rowe, Meredith Lee; Levine, Susan; Goldin-Meadow, Susan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)This study examines whether children’s decontextualized talk—talk about nonpresent events, explanations, orpretend—at 30 months predicts seventh-grade academic language proficiency (age 12). Academic language(AL) refers to ... -
Core Academic Language Skills (CALS): An expanded operational construct and a novel instrument to chart school-relevant language proficiency in per-adolescent and adolescent learners.
Uccelli, Paola; Barr, Christopher D.; Dobbs, Christina L.; Galloway, Emily Phillips; Meneses, Alejandra; Sanchez, Emilio (Cambridge University Press, 2014)Beyond academic vocabulary, the constellation of skills that comprise academic language proficiency has remained imprecisely defined. This study proposes an expanded operationalization of this construct referred to as ‘Core ... -
The Development of Core Academic Language and Reading Comprehension in Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Learners
Phillips Galloway, Emily (2016-05-27)Many adolescents struggle to comprehend text, a fact which has led educational researchers to speculate that these reading struggles might be linked with students’ levels of familiarity with the vocabulary and language ... -
Efecto de una plataforma virtual en comprensión de lectura y vocabulario: Una alternativa para mejorar las capacidades lectoras en primaria
Thorne, Cecilia; Morla, Kim; Uccelli, Paola; Nakano, Teresa; Mauchi, Beatriz; Landeo, Lorena; Vásquez, Angie; Huerta, Román (2013)Frente a los bajos resultados que los niños peruanos obtienen en las pruebas nacionales e internacionales de comprensión de lectura y tomando en consideración el aumento de inversión en tecnología en las instituciones ... -
Emerging temporality: past tense and temporal/aspectual markers in Spanish-speaking children's intra-conversational narratives
Uccelli, Paola (Cambridge University Press, 2009)This study describes how young Spanish-speaking children become gradually more adept at encoding temporality using grammar and discourse skills in intra-conversational narratives. The research involved parallel case studies ... -
Experimental Effects of Word Generation on Vocabulary, Academic Language, and Perspective Taking in High Poverty Middle Schools
Jones, Stephanie M.; Kim, James Sangil; LaRusso, Maria; Kim, Ha Yeon; Selman, Robert Louis; Uccelli, Paola; Barnes, Sophie Pauline; Donovan, Suzanne; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Taylor & Francis, 2016)Time to Act, a 2009 report of the Carnegie Corporation’s Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy, concludes that U.S. students are ill-prepared for the literacy challenges of 21st century higher education, employment, and ... -
Mastering Academic Language: Organization and Stance in the Persuasive Writing of High School Students
Uccelli, Paola; Dobbs, Christina L.; Scott, Jessica Armytage (Sage Publications, 2012)Beyond mechanics and spelling conventions, academic writing requires progressive mastery of advanced language forms and functions. Pedagogically-useful tools to assess such language features in adolescents’ writing, however, ... -
A Research Agenda for Educational Linguistics
Uccelli, Paola; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Wiley Blackwell, 2008)