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Isaacs, Talia – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
This article brings to the fore trends in second language (L2) pronunciation research, teaching, and assessment by highlighting the ways in which pronunciation instructional priorities and assessment targets have shifted over time, social dimensions that, although presented in a different guise, appear to have remained static, and principles in…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction, Educational Trends, Student Educational Objectives
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Frankel, Katherine K.; Becker, Bryce L. C.; Rowe, Marjorie W.; Pearson, P. David – Journal of Education, 2016
In their 1985 report, "Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading," Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, and Wilkinson defined reading and proposed five principles that guide its successful enactment: (1) reading is a constructive process, (2) reading must be fluent, (3) reading must be strategic, (4) reading requires…
Descriptors: Reading, Literacy, Educational Principles, Reading Processes
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Jarvis, Huw; Achilleos, Marianna – TESL-EJ, 2013
This article begins by critiquing the long-established acronym CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). We then go on to report on a small-scale study which examines how student non-native speakers of English use a range of digital devices beyond the classroom in both their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. We look also at the extent to…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Criticism
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Saito, Naoko – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2009
This paper offers a different approach to writing about oneself--Stanley Cavell's idea of philosophy as autobiography. In Cavell's understanding, the acknowledgement of the partiality of the self is an essential condition for achieving the universal. In the apparently paradoxical combination of the "philosophical" (which is traditionally connected…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Translation, Definitions, Self Concept
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Good, David – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
Bernstein recognised that his claims about the role of language in education, and the differential success of children from different social strata were effectively claims about underlying psychological processes, and the relationship between language and thought. In attempting to bridge the gap between macro-sociological analyses and individual…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Psychological Studies, Definitions, Academic Achievement
Carey, Ann – 1997
The "Hamilton College community" (New York) is a term which appears to describe those who are students or staff of the college, who are bound by the close housing (set up on a hill, to be further separated), who share a common philosophy (wanting to learn or to teach), and who are familiar with many members of the "community."…
Descriptors: Campuses, Community Characteristics, Definitions, Dormitories