The resources in the WIDA Standards Framework can be used by content area teachers to attend to the discipline-specific ways language works in their content area.
Keywords: WIDA standards, systemic functional linguistics, multilingual learners, content area teaching
WIDA Standards Framework…
Ruslana Westerlund is an educational linguist and one of the developers of the WIDA ELD Standards Framework. Ruslana’s role was to make language visible and for it to come alive by developing Language Functions and Features and contextualizing them in the annotated language samples. She supports WIDA products and services using Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Teaching and Learning Cycle as a pedagogy of apprenticeship used in her research of disciplinary writing in K-5 classrooms.
