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A Validity and Reliability Study of the Scale of Teacher Candidate Beliefs about Ottoman Turkish
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Kayabasi, Bekir – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to develop a scale of pre-service teacher beliefs about Ottoman Turkish. The 34-item "The Scale of Teacher Candidate Beliefs about Ottoman Turkish," created for the piloting was given to 202 pre-service teachers who were taking an Ottoman Turkish course in the departments of Turkish education and Arabic education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Serendipitous: Lessons and Insights into Language Assessment from Catherine Elder
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Hirch, R. Roz – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The following interview was conducted with Catherine Elder in spring of 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. Cathie has had a varied career in language testing, including work at universities in Australia and New Zealand and at the Language Testing Resource Center in Melbourne. In this interview, Cathie shares some highlights of her somewhat…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Toward Useful Assessment and Evaluation of Heritage Language Learning
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Son, Young-A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
With a growing population of heritage language speakers in the United States and an increasing enrollment of heritage language learners (HLLs) in language classrooms (Beaudrie & Ducar, 2012; Carreira & Kagan, 2011), heritage language (HL) education has become a special concern within the language acquisition research community. Although…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Native Language Instruction