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TITLE:   SCAFFOLDING OR SIDE-TRACKING? THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LANGUAGE IN CONTENT INSTRUCTION DATE OF READING: 21 DECEMBER 2020   Author:  Robert Wallden Published:  December 2019 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Linguistics and Education" Volume 54, 100760 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2019.100760 Summary:  Research in the article is based on observations and voice recordings during a curriculum area about maps and population in grade 6 with the participating teacher employing genre-based pedagogy. The instruction is cross-curricular, as it is geared towards goal attainment in Geography as well as Swedish as a second language. The studied interaction shows that an initial focus on technical terms within the field of geography in later phases shifts to features of language: genre structures, logical connections and instances of grammatical metaphors. By closely examining the relationship between field knowledge and metalinguistic knowledge, the

TITLE:   THE POLITICS OF PLURILINGUALISM: IMMERSION, TRANSLANGUAGING AND SCHOOL AUTONOMY IN CATALONIA DATE OF READING: 13 DECEMBER 2020   Author:  Iker Erdocia Published: December 2020 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Linguistics and Education" Volume 60, 100865 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2020.100865 Summary:  The main purpose of the journal is to examine the strategy of plurilingualism in education and in the different interests of the educational authorities in Spain. Authors critically discuss the linguistic model of language in education and the public discourse that its adoption has created, focusing on three themes: immersion, translanguaging and school autonomy. An significant feature of the new model is that the well-accepted definition of education by Catalan presents conceptual and practical challenges for those in the teaching field. The paper argues that sociolinguistic researchers should critically investigate how analysis can become

TITLE:   THE BRAIN SIGNATURE OF EMERGING READING IN TWO CONTRASTING LANGUAGES DATE OF READING: 5 December 2020   Authors:  Katarzyna Chyl, Bartosz Kossowski, Shuai Wang, Agnieszka Dębska, Magdalena Łuniewska, Artur Marchewka, Marek Wypych, Mark van den Bunt, William Mencl, Kenneth Pugh, Katarzyna Jednoróg. Published:  November 2020 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Neurolmage" Volume 225, 117503 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117503 Summary:  Authors of journal compare speech compare speech and print processing in emerging readers of 2 contrasting languages: Polish and English, in over 100 7-year-old children performing language localizer tasks. The research has shown that in the two groups of children speaking different languages the neural pattern of print and speech processing is remarkably similar. Importantly, the speech-print convergence is present in both groups, yet again suggesting that incorporating orthographic processing into the s