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Miguel Fernández Álvarez; Silvia García Hernández – Language Teaching Research, 2024
After the publication of the "CEFR Companion Volume" in 2018, a revision of the curriculum in force for the English subject in the Bilingual Sections in the Community of Madrid has been implemented. One of the main changes is the inclusion of the concept of linguistic mediation in the subject 'Advanced English' in the last stage of…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Secondary School Students, Language Proficiency, Guidelines
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Mearns, Tessa; Platteel, Tamara – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
This study follows a group of modern foreign languages (MFL) teachers in the Netherlands during a nine-month professional development project around the theme of 'Content in MFL'. The project was initiated following proposals to refocus the MFL curriculum on the basis of integrated learning outcomes for both language proficiency and areas of…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Modern Languages
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Ritz, Catherine; Rupley, William H. – NECTFL Review, 2018
This study uses a cohort model--a combination of a study group, with readings and discussion, and collaborative curriculum design as a professional development tool--as a context for investigating a group of middle and high school world language teachers' beliefs about effective curriculum. The study explores whether this model could shift…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Saida, Chisato – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
The new national educational policy was implemented at secondary schools in 2002 in Japan. The revised Course of Study for foreign language education corresponding to the national educational policy decreased the number of English lessons per week from four to three at the junior high school level, which resulted in a 25% decrease in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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Franz, Jens; Teo, Adisa – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
Thailand has seen several English language curriculum reforms over the last 20 years, all of which were found to have failed to lift Thai students' standard of English language proficiency across all levels of study. In 2014, the Thai Ministry of Education announced the introduction of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Frantz, Roger S.; Bailey, Alison L.; Starr, Laura; Perea, Luis – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
The current focus across the U.S. on student college and career readiness standards makes clear that both instruction and assessment of academic English will continue to be important for school-age English learner (EL) students. This article presents an overview and summary of key literature on academic language (usually academic English);…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English Language Learners, State Standards, Language Proficiency
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Abbasi, Zahra; Azizifar, Akbar; Gowhary, Habib; Heidari, Mina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The Impact of using Supplementary books alongside the national academic text book has received great attention of the curriculum and material developers. Since the beginning of language studies, Second & Foreign Language Acquisition (SLA & FLA) researchers have been searching for effective ways of improving learners' language skills. This…
Descriptors: Supplementary Reading Materials, Experimental Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Abdul Gafoor, K.; Sreeja, C. – Online Submission, 2013
The increasing importance of English as a global language, calls for an equally vigorous attempt to improving teaching and learning it in schools as a second language within and outside India. Highlighting the relevance of contextualising ESL learning by allowing for the needs of students and teachers in undertaking reforms to ESL learning, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Educational Change, Difficulty Level
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Hoare, Philip; Kong, Stella; Bell, Jill – Language and Education, 2008
This paper provides a case study of the use of language objectives within a newly developed English language teacher education programme in Hong Kong. The programme development team decided to adopt a content-based language teaching approach to support students' second language development through content learning. The teacher education programme…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Teachers, Teacher Education, Language Usage