Despite decades of efforts, deficit narratives regarding language development and use by
children and students from historically marginalized backgrounds remain persistent in the …

My goals in this chapter are to describe resources, challenges, and methodological issues to
consider when designing research on language and mathematics learning. As a researcher …

This paper uses a sociocultural conceptual framework to provide an integrated view of
academic literacy in mathematics for English Learners. The proposed definition of academic …

For more than twenty years, research on the learning and teaching of mathematics in
multilingual classrooms has deployed the notion of language as a resource. I review and …

The Meaning Makers is about children's language and literacy development at home and at
school. Based on the Bristol Study,“Language at Home and at School,” which the author …

The importance of the role of language/discourse in the learning and teaching of
mathematics is noted in many mathematics curricula and standards documents. In the …

This book addresses a problem that affects the work of all educators: how traditional
methods of assessment undermine the capacity of schools to serve students with diverse …

We report on a qualitative investigation of the ways in which 14 faculty members in the
mathematics department at a community college described their approaches to teaching …

Classroom research into mathematics and language has studied issues of context specificity
such as cultures of explanation or the impact of language policies on practice. More recently …

Research focused on learning mathematics in a 2nd language is generally located in
individual 2nd-language contexts. In this ethnographic study, I investigated mathematics …