Name: Academic Languaging: Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Learning
ISBN: 9781071956076

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Academic Languaging: Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Learning

Gisela Ernst-Slavit

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Rethink how academic languaging can transform content area teaching

For years, the teaching of content-based academic language to multilingual learners has focused on formulas, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns--often sidelining students' linguistic and cultural strengths. Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb address these challenges by embracing academic languaging, an active, collaborative student-driven process. Academic Languaging offers strategies to integrate language and content learning while fostering student engagement, voice, and agency.

Dedicated chapters on academic languaging for Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science highlight the dimensions of disciplinary language for each subject and provide strategies for moving learning forward with multilingual learners. Additional features include:

"Stop and Think" prompts to help educators connect new ideas with their instructional settings
Prompts at the end of each chapter to encourage deeper thinking and application of the material
Multilingual examples to mirror the varied classroom settings in the U.S. and beyond.

The ultimate resource for educators committed to empowering multilingual learners and fostering meaningful, culturally sustaining education, Academic Languaging ensures multilingual learners comprehend academic content and thrive as confident, autonomous drivers of their own learning.

Book Details

Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Publish Date: Jul 29th, 2025
Pages: 270
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
EAN: 9781071956076
Categories: • Bilingual Education• Curricula• Teaching - General

About the Author

Ernst-Slavit, Gisela: - Dr. Gisela Ernst-Slavit (PhD University of Florida) is a Professor Emerita at Washington State University with an active program of research. Dr. Ernst-Slavit is a native from Peru who grew up languaging in Spanish, German and English at school. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 12 books and over 100 articles and chapters, and she frequently speaks at regional, national, and international conferences on multilingual learner education, with a particular focus on teacher preparation for multilingual youth. Dr. Ernst-Slavit has served as President of the Washington Association for English to Speakers of Other Languages and as an officer in several professional organizations, including the American Educational Research Association, the Council of Anthropology and Education, and TESOL International Association.

Gottlieb, Margo: -

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D., has been a bilingual teacher, coordinator, facilitator, consultant, and mentor across K-20 settings. Having worked with universities, organizations, governments, states, school districts, networks, and schools, Margo has co-constructed linguistic and culturally sustainable curriculum and reconceptualized classroom assessment, policy, and practice. As co-founder and lead developer of WIDA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, Margo has helped design and contributed to all the editions of WIDA's English and Spanish language development standards frameworks and their derivative products. She has been appointed to national and state advisory boards, served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and was honored by the TESOL International Association in 2016 for her significant contribution to the field. An avid traveler, Margo has enjoyed keynoting and presenting across the United States, territories, and 25 countries. Having authored, co-authored, or co-edited over 100 publications, including 22 books, Margo′s 3^rd edition of Assessing Multilingual Learners: Bridges to Empowerment (2024) and Collaborative Assessment for Multilingual Learners and Teachers: Pathways to Partnerships (with A. Honigsfeld, 2025) are the latest additions to her Corwin compendium.

Praise for this book

"What an exciting way to approach languaging in the content areas! Gisela's and Margo's book lays the groundwork for looking at language, literacy, and core content through the actions of multilingual learners and their teachers. They show how multilingualism is at the heart of multilingual learners' identities and how multimodalities can open doors for increasing their access to content and showing evidence for learning. Through sample texts, they illustrate how to make dimensions of language come to life to promote student engagement. They showcase academic languaging for building teacher and peer relationships, and for applying technology to advance learning in math, science, social studies, and language arts. This book is a must for ESL/ELD and dual language teachers, programs, and school administrators."--Margarita Espino Calderón, Professor Emerita/Senior Research Scientist (2/18/2025 12:00:00 AM)

"Dr. Margo Gottlieb and Dr. Gisela Ernst-Slavit's original series has always been my go-to resource for understanding academic language and its application to curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The reconceptualization of academic language in this new edition brings educators to the most contemporary, research-informed, and evidence-based understanding of academic languaging as an active process that honors multilingualism and invites students to use their full linguistic repertoires across various contexts. The chapter-by-chapter guidance across the core content areas prompts readers to critically examine how students' rich cultural and linguistic heritages and experiences are authentically embedded in all learning opportunities while also suggesting actionable steps to support multilingual learners' self-expression and agency. A must-read for all educators!"--Andrea Honigsfeld (12/6/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"As educators, we want to embrace students' languages, cultures, lived experiences, interests, perspectives, and multiliteracies. How can we do this and simultaneously support them to master academic language across the content areas? Scholars Ernst-Slavit and Gottlieb latest contribution brilliantly show us how to engage all language learners, put their language assets and cultural perspectives front and center, and support them as empowered autonomous learners."--Debbie Zacarian (12/18/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"In this timely and vital new edition, Gottlieb and Ernst-Slavit reconfigure academic language for an era defined by artificial intelligence, heightened student stress, and the embrace of asset-based approaches, such as translanguaging pedagogy. Moving beyond their earlier focus on developing vocabulary, sentence-level structures, and discourse features, they focus on "academic languaging" as a tool for professional and scientific learning that fosters students′ confidence and agency. The book is packed with essential updates for today′s classrooms, including: - Guidance on navigating artificial intelligence with multilingual learners, - Rich strategies for digital literacy and multimodal learning, - Creative approaches to movement, visual arts, and hands-on learning, - Practical ways to build student voice and agency, and- Clear connections between social-emotional learning and academic success. Few scholars have impacted multilingual education as profoundly as Gottlieb and Ernst-Slavit. In this key new resource, they once again showcase their gift formaking complex concepts actionable in real classrooms. Their fresh take on "academic languaging" opens new possibilities for equity --showing teachers exactly how to support multilingual learners in mastering grade-level content while developing their full linguistic abilities. The authors provide both the research foundation teachers need to understand why these approaches work and the practical tools to implement them successfully. Through carefully scaffolded instruction and meaningful engagement with content, multilingual learners can thrive with rigorous academic work from their first day in the classroom."--Andrea B. Hellman (12/18/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"This book is a much-needed collection for teachers and teacher educators interested in language and content integration for multilingual learners. By focusing on going beyond the construct of academic language to considering 'academic languaging', Ernst-Slavit and Gottlieb offer ways to support and incorporate multimodalities and multiple means of expression into instruction to optimize multilingual learners' content learning. One significant feature is the inclusion of mentor texts demonstrating how language features function within specific content areas. These texts serve as tools to support multilingual learners in their oral language and literacy development. Like everything that Ernst-Slavit and Gottlieb do, this is another wonderful and practical contribution to the TESOL field!"--Luciana C. de Oliveira, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Studies/Professor (2/18/2025 12:00:00 AM)

"Academic Languaging: Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Classrooms arrives at a pivotal moment for K-12 education, offering educators a timely and transformative approach to supporting multilingual learners. With the notion of "academic language" evolving to acknowledge the dynamic and inclusive concept of "languaging," this book redefines how we view and approach language in content classrooms. Academic languaging moves beyond the constraints of traditional school language, embracing students' diverse linguistic and cultural assets as integral to learning.Authors Gottlieb and Ernst-Slavit provide a practical and insightful guide for teachers, administrators, and language specialists, emphasizing the importance of creating learning environments that honor students' backgrounds and encourage agency. The book's structured strategies and content-specific chapters in language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science offer actionable methods for embedding academic language through multimodal, culturally relevant practices.As multilingualism becomes the norm, Academic Languaging stands as an essential resource, advocating for equitable education that empowers students to leverage their whole linguistic repertoire. It's a must-read for any educator committed to transforming their classroom into a space of active, meaningful learning for all students."--Amelia Larson (12/18/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"Congratulations to Drs. Ernst-Slavit and Gottlieb and their new book, Academic Languaging: Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Learning. Readers will find this book replete with essential academic content and pragmatic applications for educators of multilingual learners to use in their everyday work. This book moves the field of multilingual education forward by addressing both the complexities of the construct 'academic language' and its prior limitations and definitions, and building into the dynamic concept of 'academic languaging', an action-oriented approach to schooling that underscores the interactive nature of how language is used in multiple formats and modalities. Readers will find the 'stop and think' features, imagery, model texts, and tables essential as they engage in their own exploration of language and languaging. I cannot wait to use this book with my students and to share this work with colleagues."--Maria Coady (12/18/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"In the book Academic Languaging: Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Classrooms, the authors discuss how a static notion of academic language has evolved into a dynamic and ongoing process of language use as 'doing" or "languaging". This insightful book invites all educators, monolingual or multilingual --particularly future and in-service teachers, coaches, administrators, and teacher educators--to embrace all the languages and cultural experiences multilingual students bring to school as they support their development of "academic languaging" at the discourse, sentence, word/phrase and symbols dimensions. The chapter examples provide practical ideas for educators on the "what" it is and "how" to create languaging opportunities for multilingual learners to make meaning of and access content area knowledge using their complete language systems and cultural perspectives. The authors also include thought-provoking questions embedded throughout the chapters to help readers interact with new ideas and construct meaning grounded in their contexts and experiences. This is a must-read for all educators who want to embrace a social justice stance and create a more inclusive, flexible, and empowering environment for multilingual students."--Sandra Mercuri (12/18/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"This book engages teachers in a deep examination of the notion of academic language, not as a fixed or static concept, but as a reflection of the dynamic "languaging" practices that are enacted within multilingual schools and communities. It provides rich tools and resources for a variety of classroom contexts, grade levels, and content areas, with concrete examples to help teachers adapt and modify suggested strategies for their own particular settings. Most importantly, it offers an approach to language teaching and learning that honors multilingual learners' identities and sense of agency, placing them at the center of schooling."--Maria Dantas-Whitney (12/18/2024 12:00:00 AM)