Fang and Schleppegrell\u2019s article highlights the importance of giving students the tools to identify discipline based language patterns, which will aid their overall academic comprehension. I found this article very practical and informative, because I just recently struggled with understanding the academic context of the word \u201caffect\u201d for one of my class readings. I had no previous understanding of the word, and when I looked it up, there was a different meaning provided for each context (philosophy, psychology, or linguistics) that was used. Because it was an art education paper, I still was not sure how to insert and interpret \u2018affect\u2019 in the article. About half way through the paper I was able to make use of the academic language tools I have learned over the years and associate \u2018affect\u2019 with its proper meaning within the art education lens.<\/p>\n
Although an art class usually involves more hands on activities than literature, there is still important art history and theory reading that I would want to introduce to my students. This writing is typically subject specific and can be difficult to understand if the reader does not have a solid grasp on art vocabulary words before they begin. The structure that Fang and Schleppegrell suggest would be a great place to start when working with students to decipher academic texts, no matter the subject area. I appreciate that their approach is portable because it would give students the knowledge to work through texts in different subject areas on their own.<\/p>\n
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Fang, Z., & Schleppegrell, M. J. (2010). Disciplinary literacies across content areas: Supporting secondary reading through functional language analysis. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 53<\/i>, 587\u2013597. doi:10.1598\/JAAL.53.7.6<\/p>\n
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