Academic Language And How To Teach It

Course overview

This course takes a deep dive into academic language and how to teach it in meaningful contexts. Academic language is specialized language, in form and function. It is oral and written. Success in academic domains such as reading, writing, science, and social studies depends on students' oral language skills, as listening and speaking are the foundation of all learning. The ASHA roles and responsibilities of school-based SLPs emphasize the need to support students' academic needs that have an impact on their educational attainment. Unfortunately, only 12% of students with language disabilities meet grade level expectations in reading and writing. When SLPs concentrate their language intervention on the dimensions of academic language-namely vocabulary, discourse structures, complex sentences, morphology, and inferencing-more students achieve academic expectations.