Course Level
210
Workshop Title
Academic Language: An Introduction
Prerequisite Course
Any 100 level course
Workshop Presenter
Bridget Erickson
Workshop Length
3 hours
Min/Max Class Size
4 to 30
Target Audience
All school staff
Workshop Objectives
This workshop provides an overview of the language of school. Jim Cummins’ work in Cognitive Academic Language (CALP) and Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) will be presented as a foundation to explain the differences between social and academic language along with the research of Frances Christie and Beverly Derewianka which provides a trajectory of the expected development of academic language in school. Staff will interact with a variety of text, including that from their own curriculum, and will work to deautomatize their own comprehension of complex text.
Objectives:
210
Workshop Title
Academic Language: An Introduction
Prerequisite Course
Any 100 level course
Workshop Presenter
Bridget Erickson
Workshop Length
3 hours
Min/Max Class Size
4 to 30
Target Audience
All school staff
Workshop Objectives
This workshop provides an overview of the language of school. Jim Cummins’ work in Cognitive Academic Language (CALP) and Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) will be presented as a foundation to explain the differences between social and academic language along with the research of Frances Christie and Beverly Derewianka which provides a trajectory of the expected development of academic language in school. Staff will interact with a variety of text, including that from their own curriculum, and will work to deautomatize their own comprehension of complex text.
Objectives:
- Participants will understand how social and academic language are distinct from each other.
- Participants will be introduced to the components of academic language
- Participants will deautomatize their own comprehension of complex adult text.
- Participants will deautomatize their own comprehension of the student text used in their teaching.
