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Zhao, Ran; Coss, Matthew D.; Ruan, Henry; Li, Bailu; Ma, Jing – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This study reports the results of a national survey of the types and uses of assessments for matriculating secondary students into college Chinese language programs. In addition to providing an overview of college placement procedures obtained from 35 college Chinese programs, the survey also probed into the rationales behind the varied placement…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Student Placement, College Second Language Programs, Chinese
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Zhang, Xiaowan; Winke, Paula; Clark, Shaunna – Language Learning, 2020
Answering calls to map college-level proficiency development (Modern Language Association, 2007) and longitudinally chart language learning (Barkaoui, 2014; Ortega & Byrnes, 2008), we mapped the oral proficiency growth of 1,922 lower-division college students of Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish (in the second, third, or fourth semester of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, College Second Language Programs, College Students
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Sloan, Cynthia A. – Hispania, 2019
Concurrent enrollment access is expanding across the country, policies and practices are evolving, and data-driven studies examining every measurable element are being undertaken, yet the role of the relationships among concurrent enrollment partners and participants is too often just mentioned in passing. This case study of a concurrent…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Teachers
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Shiri, Saeed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study was conducted in order to inspect the impact of podcasts as learning and teaching tools on Iranian EFL learners' motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. It also investigated the learners' perception towards podcasts. 34 intermediate learners who were homogeneous in terms of listening ability were…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Motivation Techniques, English (Second Language), Multimedia Materials
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Bischof, Deborah Lokai; Baum, David I.; Casabianca, Jodi M.; Morgan, Rick; Rabiteau, Kathleen A.; Tateneni, Krishna – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
In 2002, nearly 100,000 high school students took one of the Advanced Placement Program? (AP?)language examinations in French, German, or Spanish. One way in which the validity of these exams is ensured is through periodic college comparability studies. The purpose of such studies is to equate the AP scores with performance standards in the third…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Advanced Placement, High School Students