http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/lmri_tr/rss Recent eScholarship items from Technical Reports Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:58:28 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pd082d4 <p>Learning academic English is probably one of the surest, most reliable ways of attaining socio- economic success in the United States today. Learners cannot function in school settings effectively without it. This variety of English entails the multiple, complex features of English required for success in public schooling and career advancement. It involves mastery of a writing system and its particular academic conventions as well as proficiency in reading, speaking, and listening. Unfortunately, academic English has often been ignored or under-emphasized in public school instruction. Many have not understood its importance in helping students function in school settings or have misunderstood its complex nature. This paper discusses approaches to the study of academic English and presents a multi-dimensional framework for analyzing it. The dimensions include linguistic, cognitive, and socio-cultural/psychological ones. The paper also describes the relationship between the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pd082d4 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Scarcella, Robin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kn6j13b <p>This study examined participation in preschool and its relationship with the cognitive and social development of language minority students. Although there is a large body of research that demonstrates the cognitive and social benefits of attending preschool (Barnett, 1995; Gorey, 2001; National Research Council, Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy, 2000; Vandell, 2004), very little of this research has included language minority students, or at least those who do not speak English. Either non-English speaking families are not included in the design of the study, such as with the widely cited National Institute for Child Health and Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Study, or the studies are based on cognitive and social assessments that are only conducted in English (e.g., Magnuson, Meyers, Ruhm, &amp; Waldfogel, 2004). Consequently, little is known about participation in and outcomes of preschool for the growing population of language minority students.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kn6j13b Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Rumberger, Russell W. Tran, Loan