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William S. Davis; Bo Liu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This practice article examines the design, implementation and impacts of a collaborative German language learning (LL) field trip in the United States through the conceptual framework of LL and teaching beyond the classroom. We explore the affordances of semi-structured out-of-class experiences in supporting world language students' target…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
Wolf, Mikyung Kim – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
This commentary highlights major validation challenges raised, explicitly or implicitly, from the four articles in the special issue on "Validity Considerations for Assessing Language Proficiency in Young Language Minority Students." They are concerned with: (1) the construct definition in consideration of young language-minority (LM)…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Proficiency, Student Characteristics, Student Evaluation
Liao, Ray J. T. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Jessica Wu is Research and Development Program Director at the Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC) in Taipei, Taiwan. Jessica has been deeply involved in the development and validation of the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) in addition to a number of other foreign language testing programs. Her research focuses on speaking…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Interviews
Gabriele, Alison – Second Language Research, 2021
This commentary discusses Westergaard's (2021) keynote article, which presents a comprehensive model of first language (L1), second language (L2), and third language (L3) acquisition. The commentary presents evidence from a previous study of L3 learners that provides support for Westergaard's property-by-property transfer proposal. The commentary…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
Ewa Krautz, Agnieszka; Cavar, Franziska – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
The moral foreign language effect has been investigated with increased interest with both evidence for as well as against it being demonstrated. In a recent publication, Bialek and Fugelsang (in press) critically evaluated our previous publication (Cavar and Tytus, 2017) aiming to establish boundaries of this effect. In the current reply, we…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Decision Making
Roemer, Ann E. – College and University, 2020
College and university admissions officers are the gatekeepers who decide which individuals may join the "country club" of higher education. As such, the decisions they make have a significant impact on the lives of individuals, especially those who are willing to travel across the globe and risk living in an unfamiliar country in order…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cutting Scores
Dixon, Paul Andrew – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
Dr. Willy A. Renandya is a widely published language teacher educator and TESOL specialist with a particular interest in professional educator development, TESOL pedagogy, and extensive reading and listening. For the past 20 years his work has revolved around working with pre-service and in-service English teaching professionals in the Asian…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
VanPatten, Bill – Hispania, 2015
Most collegiate departments where one can find Spanish, French, German, and other non-English disciplines are referred to as "language departments," either formally or informally. Such designations are interesting as they suggest to the outsider (i.e., non-language person) that these departments consist of experts in language. In this…
Descriptors: Departments, College Second Language Programs, Specialists, College Faculty
Little, David – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
I begin this article by briefly explaining why I think CercleS should encourage university language centres to align their courses and assessment with the proficiency levels of the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" (CEFR) and why they should use a version of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) to support the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Carreira, María M. – Hispania, 2018
The year 2017 saw the publication of one of the strongest endorsements of language education on record: "America's Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century" (henceforth "America's Languages"). Commissioned by a bipartisan group of members of Congress and authored by the Commission on Language Learning of…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fillmore, Lily Wong – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
In this essay, the author argues that English language learners (ELLs) can meet and exceed the Common Core State Standards, and that more complex materials are in fact precisely what they need. Lack of access to such materials is what prevents ELLs from attaining full proficiency in English.
Descriptors: Educational Change, English Language Learners, State Standards, Core Curriculum
Brown, James Dean; Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2015
In this interview, JD Brown reflects on language testing/assessment. He suggests that language testing can be seen as a continuum with hard core positivist approaches at one end and post modernist interpretive perspectives at the other, and also argues that norm referencing (be it proficiency, placement, or aptitude testing) and criterion…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nimehchisalem, Vahid – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2015
Antony John Kunnan is a language assessment specialist. His research interests are fairness of tests and testing practice, assessment literacy, research methods and statistics, ethics and standards, and language assessment policy. His most recent publications include a four-volume edited collection of 140 chapters titled "The Companion to…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Specialists, College Faculty
Aoki, Michele Anciaux – Modern Language Journal, 2013
Bridid M. Burke poses an interesting question: Is requiring high-stakes language proficiency tests really going to improve world language education? In her article, Dr. Burke shares testimonials from "several promising student teachers" [whose] dreams of being French, German, or Spanish teachers [were] crushed" based on not…
Descriptors: Role, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ortega, Lourdes – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2012
In this closing commentary, I first briefly recognize areas that have made the dialogue between the fields of second language (L2) writing and second language acquisition (SLA) difficult in the past. I then offer some comments on the interfaces that are brought to the fore by the contributions gathered in the special issue. The themes explored are…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Teacher Improvement, Faculty Development