Browsing by Author "Ma, Shufeng"
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Children's productive use of academic vocabulary
Ma, Shufeng; Zhang, Jie; Anderson, Richard C.; Morris, Joshua; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim Thi; Miller, Brian; Jadallah, May; Sun, Jingjing; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Scott, Theresa; Hsu, Yu-Li; Zhang, Xin; Latawiec, Beata; Grabow, Kay (Taylor & Francis LTD, 2017)Instructional influences on productive use of academic vocabulary were investigated among 460 mostly African American and Latina/o fifth graders from 36 classrooms in eight public schools serving low-income families. ... -
Influence of Collaborative Reasoning discussions on metadiscourse in children's essays
Latavietz, Beata M.; Anderson, Richard C.; Ma, Shufeng; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 3/9/2016)Metadiscourse has been conceptualized as a means to organize discourse, convey interpersonal and evaluative meanings, as well as engage the reader or listener. Importantly, metadiscourse has been theorized to uncover thought ... -
Instructional influences on English language learners' storytelling
Ma, Shufeng; Anderson, Richard C.; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Zhang, Jie; Morris, Joshua; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim Thi; Miller, Brian; Jadallah, May; Scott, Theresa; Sun, Jingjing; Grabow, Kay; Latawiec, Beata; Yi, Sherry (Elsevier, 2017-06)The goal of this study was to evaluate instructional influences on the storytelling of English Language Learners (ELLs). Participants were 210 fifth-grade Spanish-speaking ELLs (mean age = 10.8) from schools serving ...