Learn more about the difference between social and academic language and take a look at some examples of academic language provided by veteran ELL teachers and researchers.
Learn how to use words that are related in different languages, called cognates, to support English learners' academic language development across content areas.
Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation. While English may share very few cognates with a language like Chinese, 30-40% of all words in English have a related word in Spanish.