Associate Professor of Education Ivannia Soto has devoted her professional career to ensuring that immigrant children receive the same challenging academic experiences and meet the same achievement standards as their English-speaking peers. Her work focuses on language acquisition, systemic reform for English Language Learners (ELLs) and urban education.
She discusses her latest thoughts on academic language acquisition for English Language Learners (ELLs) and Standard English Learners (SELs) on Education Week. In the blog post, she argues that academic language represents the pathway to full access to cognitively and linguistically demanding content, which allows them to cultivate complex thinking and argumentation in order to become career and college ready.
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