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Kateryn Rannu; Aleksandra Ljalikova; Katrin Poom-Valickis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite Estonia being ranked among the highest performing nations in the world-wide testing of students, these encouraging results are somewhat overshadowed by the challenge to overcome the divided school system with different languages of learning that impacts crucially on students' social, academic and professional paths. The study examines…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Pavón, Victor; Cabezuelo, Rafael – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent the use of L2 in math tests influences bilingual education learners' process of word problem solving in a mandatory secondary education school with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The reading comprehension level of the students was analysed using a standards-based…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Marconi, Gabriele; Cascales, Carla Campos; Covacevich, Catalina; Halgreen, Tue – OECD Publishing, 2020
For the first time, PISA 2025 will assess foreign language skills on a global scale. This paper provides a framework for collecting policy and contextual information on foreign language learning from students, parents, teachers, school principals and government officials. The framework will be used to guide the PISA 2025 Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Morawski, Michael; Budke, Alexandra – Geography Teacher, 2017
Geography lessons center on a language-based product with socially relevant geographic content. The subject of geography in secondary schools in Germany faces three major challenges that make a stronger focus on language in the monolingual geography classroom necessary. First, more than 30 percent of German pupils in secondary schools have a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Soh, Kaycheng – Cogent Education, 2014
International achievement comparison studies assess students on core subjects such as Reading, Mathematics and Science. Students who do not speak the test language at home can be expected to be disadvantaged because of language proficiency. The test language effect has not been given sufficient attention. The present study investigated probable…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Comparative Testing
Little, David, Ed.; Leung, Constant, Ed.; Van Avermaet, Piet – Multilingual Matters, 2013
Diversity--social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic--poses a challenge to all educational systems. Some authorities, schools and teachers look upon it as a problem, an obstacle to the achievement of national educational goals, while for others it offers new opportunities. Successive PISA reports have laid bare the relative lack of success in…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Barriers