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Coxhead, Averil; Boutorwick, T. J. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This article focuses on vocabulary in the context of English-medium instruction at an international high school in Germany. Longitudinal testing was carried out using the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) (Nation, 1983; Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001), with 468 participants tested on entry to their first year of secondary school (Grade 6, aged…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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Fleckenstein, Johanna; Leucht, Michael; Köller, Olaf – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
Most English-medium programs at European universities require prospective students to take standardised tests for English as a foreign language (EFL) to be admitted. However, there are contexts in which individual teachers' judgements serve the same function, thus having high-stakes consequences for the higher education entrance of their students.…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Rating Scales, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Enever, Janet, Ed.; Lindgren, Eva, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This is the first collection of research studies to explore the potential for mixed methods to shed light on foreign or second language learning by young learners in instructed contexts. It brings together recent studies undertaken in Cameroon, China, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French