The Common Core State Standards Elaborating their Linguistic Foundations

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The Common Core State Standards Elaborating their Linguistic Foundations

Source: Historical Photograph Collection of San Francisco Public Library's San Francisco History Center.

Lau v. Nichols (1974)

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CCNY/Gates Meeting on CCSS and ELLs

Some Core Epistemological Foundations

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Integrated Nature of Language

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Source: B. L. Whorf (1956). Language, Thought and Reality.

Epistemological Varieties and Language

Academic Language: The Cartoon

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Content

Language

Semantics, Pragmatics

Morphology, Lexicon, Syntax

Phonology, Phonetics

Classro

om

Small Groups

Reading

Assessm

ent

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Ali G: How many words does you know?Chomsky: Well, normally,, humans by maturity have

tens of thousands of words.Ali G: What is some of them?

CCNY/Gates Meeting on CCSS and ELLs

Ali G: How many words does you know?Chomsky: Well, normally, humans by maturity have

tens of thousands of words.Ali G: What is some of them?

CCNY/Gates Meeting on CCSS and ELLs

Ali G: How many words does you know?Chomsky: Well, normally, humans by maturity have

tens of thousands of words.Ali G: What is some of them?

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CCSS Publisher’s Guide

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CCNY/Gates Meeting on CCSS and ELLs

CCNY/Gates Meeting on CCSS and ELLs

Epistemological Linguistics:a new field

• Mapping language to knowledge domains• Sensitivity to all levels of linguistic analysis,

from phonetics to macro-sociolinguistics, formal and functional

• CS/NLP applications, from parsers to semantic networks (LSA) to brute force approaches

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AR

IANE

WV

LATN

SC

CCSS

PARCC SBAC

EAG

Publishers, Professional Groups, Advocacy Groups

The BOX

WIDA

ELDA

“Big Solos”

AERA Brown Lecture