ELLs attempted academic terminology from prior lessons, with experience mediating their connection to the concept of vibration¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students tried out the academic term introduced through schooling (vibration), initially mispronounced or substituted, and experience with the ruler experiment mediated their connection to the concept. → Suarez 2008

Evidence¶

Suarez 2008¶

Suarez, E. and Otero, V. (2008). 3rd grade English language learners making sense of sound. https://www.eric.ed.gov

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Discourse analysis of the episode shows Brian said the shortest string goes "ting ting, because it hibernates faster," attempting the term from a previous session; peers prompted correction toward "vibrate." The authors state "experience mediates students' connection with academic language."

"Here we see how experience mediates students' connection with academic language and, more specifically, the concept of vibration."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• English-Learner Status — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Academic and Critical Literacy — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Integrating oral and written English language instruction into content-area teaching shows positive impacts on content-area acquisition in five RCTs — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
• Third-grade ELLs recruit familiar everyday language, including onomatopoeic labels, to talk productively about the sounds produced by strings — related
• Students reported greater engagement, motivation and language use after MLE-mediated English lessons — related
• Pretraining learners on a system's key parts and terms before the main lesson improved knowledge and real-world transfer in one VR experiment, and is reported second-hand to improve learning in multimedia studies — related