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Patricia Chow; Rajika Bhandari – Institute of International Education, 2011
"Open Doors" is a comprehensive information resource on the 723,277 international students in the United States in 2010/11 and on the 270,604 U.S. students who studied abroad for academic credit in 2009/10. The Institute of International Education (IIE), one of the largest and most experienced higher education exchange agencies in the…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, English (Second Language)
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Iwami, Ichiro – 2000
The purpose of this highly quantitative study is to manifest the direct effects of communicative learning in the context of public high school teaching in Japan. A small-scale (n=12) experiment was conducted to reveal intergroup differences. The experiment was based on the assumption that there are clear differences in the amount of input from and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Nakamura, Yuji – Educational Studies, 2001
This paper examines the rating scale data of oral proficiency tests analyzed by a Rasch Analysis focusing on an item map and factor analysis. In discussing the item map, the difficulty order of six items and students' answering patterns are analyzed using descriptive statistics and measures of central tendency of test scores. The data ranks the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis