SR Jacob, A Bailey, MU Bers, Q Burke, J Denner… - 2021 - escholarship.org

Computer Science for Multilingual Students.

Broadening Participation in Computing AND Program Evaluation

Bailey, Bers, Burke, Jacob

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Excerpt

As advances in computational technologies are changing the fabric of society, computational thinking (CT) is increasingly seen as a fundamental skill that all students should learn. While the bulk of research on CT has focused on its integration into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content, there is a growing body of scholarship that focuses on the relationship between CT, language, and literacy (Bers et al., 2019; Jacob & Warschauer, 2018; Kafai et al., 2019; Vogel et al., 2020), and the roles that language and …