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.

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