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    1. christian16261 12 Jul 2026
      "We've engaged in real benign neglect with English-learners and those students who come from generational poverty and families with minimal educational experience," Ms. Kinsella said. "We as a profession have not done a very organized, systematic job of helping these students" progress to more formal ways of speaking and using advanced English.

      Lesli effectively shows how unorganized and how unproffesional the current education system is at teaching the English language. Focusing on things like main idea and key details doesn't teach students how to actually absorb an article.

    2. christian16261 12 Jul 2026
      "Many of them couldn't do it," she said. " They didn't know the terms. They know ' main idea' and ' details' because those have been the big thing in kindergarten through 6th grade for so long."

      Its incredibly intresting to see that so many students didn't know label various features of an article because schools are pushing thing likes key details and main idea.

    3. christian16261 12 Jul 2026
      Focus on Concept

      The purpose of this section is how focusing on grammer or ultra spefic details in writing negativly affects students and distracts them from learning the skills they truly need to effectively write.

    5. christian16261 12 Jul 2026
      Some English-learner experts reject the term " academic language."

      This is what I was mentioning in my earlier annotations and I'm really happy that i'm not the only one who though this way.

    7. christian16261 11 Jul 2026
      WIDA edition also offers example topics that are pulled directly from a content standard in the common core and provide teachers with the types of support and scaffolding of academic language that they need depending on students' proficiency.

      Lesli give various examples covering the WIDA and goes in depth covering what it does to the readers. She covers the oppositions side before explaining why her side is correct making her writing even stronger

    9. christian16261 11 Jul 2026
      That approach, some experts say, discourages many language learners from engaging more with English, especially orally, for fear of being corrected.

      My personal experiences make me side with this argument. Growing up as a non-English speaking family I've always felt like writing with harsh grammer and vocabulary expectations made writing feel boring and made me steer from it.

    11. christian16261 11 Jul 2026
      "Who is teaching them the language they need for these demands?" said Katherine M. Kinsella, an adjunct education professor at San Francisco State University and a frequent consultant to districts and schools on instruction for English-learners.

      Author introduces the evidence by showing the quality of the source she used. I will aim to use this method in my writing.

    12. christian16261 11 Jul 2026
      And it's not just English-learners who may struggle with academic language. Many native English-speakers also fall short of grasping it because it's not what they hear at home.

      Lesli make a very strong argument here that I might save for future writing. It never occurred to me that native speakers also struggle with "academic language". This shows that academic language is difficult to everyone and schools pushing one correct language could be a mistake

    13. christian16261 11 Jul 2026
      . For English-language learners, acquiring academic language is often the highest hurdle to clear before they can be deemed proficient in English and be able to fully engage in the kind of rich and rigorous content necessary to succeed later in college and a professional work life.

      The premise of "acquiring academic language" confuses me. Society pushes a standard of using complex english in high level academic texts. However, in this article Lesli is using relatively simple grammer and it makes her point stronger to her audience.

    14. christian16261 11 Jul 2026
      academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, everyday language one needs to communicate effectively in most situations.

      Useful quote I can use in my paper and one of Lesli key points in her essay.

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