Exploring the Shifting Literacy Needs in English Medium Instruction

Published on Mar 29, 2021

  • Event Date

    14/04/2021

  • Event Time

    14:00-15:00

  • Event Location

    Web

  • Event Speaker

    Nonie Lesaux

"OVERVIEW

Many students all over the world share the same goal: academic success in English. However, these students may not share the same background or experiences. This session will explore how a shift to a content-based approach to English instruction and curriculum can better meet the needs of tomorrow’s global leaders.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Nonie K. Lesaux is Academic Dean and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society. Her research focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today’s children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is conducted largely in urban and semi-urban cities and school districts. Lesaux’s work has earned her the William T. Grant Scholars Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the United States government to young professionals beginning their independent research careers. She has served on the U.S. Department of Education’s Reading First Advisory Committee, and the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council’s Committee on the Science of Children Birth to Age 8. Lesaux’s research appears in numerous scholarly publications, and its practical applications are featured in three books: Teaching Advanced Literacy Skills (Guilford Press, 2016), Cultivating Knowledge, Building Language: Literacy Instruction for English Learners in Elementary School (Heinemann, 2015), and Making Assessment Matter: Using Test Results to Dierentiate Reading Instruction (Guilford, 2011). She is also the author of a widely circulated state literacy report, Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success, that forms the basis for a Third Grade Reading Proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts."

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