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Download full textBroer, Kathleen – Online Submission, 2003
This study examines how young second language learners acquire academic language. Among the main language groups represented were Punjabi, Hindi, Tamil, Estonian, Serbian, Arabic as well as 23 other language groups. I monitored over 75 students, in grades 1, 2 and 4. I was interested in exploring what strategies best promoted coherence in…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Languages
