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Lanvers, Ursula – Language Learning Journal, 2020
In the context of the UK language learning crisis, several studies have aimed to influence student attitude towards languages via school interventions, with mixed results. A six-session tacking diverse metalinguistic issues (e.g. cognitive benefits of language learning, world languages) was carried out in three secondary schools in England, using…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper asks: what is the ethnic dimension of the low achievement problem? We focus on six aspects, using the National Pupil Database: whether the relation between ethnicity and incidence of low achievement is symmetrical with the relation between…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Low Achievement, Peer Groups, Foreign Countries