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The Ethical Turn in Writing Assessment: How Far Have We Come, and Where Do We Still Need to Go?
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Martin East; David Slomp – Language Teaching, 2024
Both of us were drawn into the writing assessment field initially through our lived experiences as schoolteachers. We worked in radically different contexts -- Martin was head of a languages department and teacher of French and German in the late 1990s in the UK, and David was a Grade 12 teacher of Academic English in Alberta, Canada, at the turn…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Teaching Experience, Language Teachers, French
Focus on Form and Corrective Feedback Research at the University of Victoria, Canada
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Chen, Sibo; Nassaji, Hossein – Language Teaching, 2018
The Department of Linguistics at University of Victoria (UVic) in Canada has a long-standing tradition of empirical approaches to the study of theoretical and applied linguistics. As part of the Faculty of Humanities, the department caters to students with a wide range of backgrounds and interests, and provides crucial language teaching support in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Correction, Applied Linguistics, Departments
Invited Colloquium: Inclusivity in French Second Language Education
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Kennedy, Sara – Language Teaching, 2015
The aim of this bilingual (French/English) symposium was to inform researchers and teacher educators about the specific challenges faced by second language (L2) students and teachers in creating an inclusive L2 classroom in order to encourage plurilingual, non-English-dominant students and students with learning difficulties to succeed. In the…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Inclusion
Surveys of Ph.D. Thesis: Review of Doctoral Research in Language Assessment in Canada (2006-2011)
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Cheng, Liying; Fox, Janna – Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reviews a selected sample of 24 doctoral dissertations in language assessment (broadly defined), completed between 2006 and 2011 in Canadian universities. These dissertations fall into five thematic categories: 1) reliability, validity and factors affecting test performance; 2) washback (impact) and ethics; 3) raters, rating and rating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Mixed Methods Research, Language Research
Research in Practice: Group Membership and Identity Issues in Second Language Learning--Department of Education and Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, Montreal
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Trofimovich, Pavel; Turuševa, Larisa; Gatbonton, Elizabeth – Language Teaching, 2013
Language learning is inextricably linked to a social context, and this implies that context-related social variables, such as ethnicity or attitudes, can influence how language learning unfolds. Among the many group-engendered social factors, ethnic identity appears to have interesting consequences for language teaching and learning (Pavlenko…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Second Language Learning, Ethnicity, Group Dynamics
Research in the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
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Kim, Youn-Hee; Kohls, Robert; Chun, Christian W. – Language Teaching, 2009
The Modern Language Centre addresses a broad spectrum of theoretical and practical issues related to second and minority language teaching and learning. Since its foundation in 1968, the quality and range of the Centre's graduate studies programs, research, and development projects and field and dissemination services have brought it both national…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Literacy