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Impacts of academic language, productive talk, and higher level questioning skills on student learning By: Kenna Wyatt

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Academic Language prompts... (Dunston and Tyminski, 2013)

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1-Increased Comprehension

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2-The Expansion of abstract reasoning abilitities

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3-Increased Conceptual Understanding

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Examples of Academic Language in Classroom Setting:

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- Teachers saying, " there's a specific word for that" to encourage academic language use. - Projects being done with specific academic language pertaining to the chapter. - Use of words such as addition or subtraction versus "plusing" or "minusing"

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Productive Talk Prompts...

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Examples In a Classroom Setting:

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- " Think, Pair, Share" - Asking students to share where they went wrong in a problem/ if others had the same issue - Having students try example problems on the board and explain how they got to that solution

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- the revealing of misunderstandings - encourage language development - improve memory - foster the development of social skills ( Walter, 2018)

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Higher Level Questioning Skills Prompts...

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Examples of Higher Level Quesitoning: 

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-Critical Thinking - Recognizing - Attributing - Reconciling - Student Engagement ( Lennin et.al, 2006)

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- " Who can tell me why this is the next step in solving this problem?" - " How would you compare substitution to elimination?" - " Can you provide an alternative solution to this problem?"