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A Critical Look at the EFL Education and the Challenges Faced by Iranian Teachers in the Educational System
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Safari, Parvin; Rashidi, Nasser – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2015
The ultimate aim of any EFL program is to promote long life language development in learners and prepare them for the language use in real life communicative situations. However, many educational systems all over the globe might not achieve this end. Actually, a number of factors within or beyond any system can influence the success or the failure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Teacher Attitudes
Achievements and Challenges in Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the Basque Country
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Cenoz, Jasone – AILA Review, 2008
This paper focuses on the use of Basque as the language of instruction. In the first part of the article the situation of Basque in the Basque Country is briefly described and the different possibilities regarding the language(s) of instruction are explained: model A with Spanish as the language of instruction and Basque as a subject; model B with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Languages, Language of Instruction, Bilingual Education
A Study of Foreign Language Learning Outcomes Assessment in U.S. Undergraduate Education
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Ricardo-Osorio, Jose G. – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
This article reports on findings obtained from an online survey answered by 97 foreign language department chairs. The Web survey was pilot tested for validity and reliability and obtained a Cronbach's reliability coefficient of .80. The results suggest that student learning outcomes assessment in American undergraduate foreign language education…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Second Languages, National Standards, Second Language Learning
Teaching English as a Second Language: Perspectives and Practices. A Series of Six Texts. Background and Approaches: First of a Series.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1978
This book is designed to assist those who work with non-English dominant students by providing resource information relevant to second language teaching and learning. The articles in the series encompass both theory and practical learning techniques in six general topics. The articles in the first text of the series, concerning background and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
Final Report on the Undergraduate German Language Program at Middlebury College, Summer 1977.
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Schneider, Gerd K. – 1977
This report describes the seven-week program of the first-, second-, and third-year German language courses taught at Middlebury College during the summer of 1977. This was an intensive program with at least four hours of formal classroom instruction per day. The high scores achieved on the MLA-Cooperative Foreign Language Tests, Forms LA and MA,…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, German, Higher Education, Intensive Language Courses
Learning Outcomes in the Language Classroom.
Guntermann, Gail – 1981
Major factors influencing goals and outcomes of foreign language education are reviewed in order to identify a common core of goals. Alternative approaches to specifying outcomes are discussed and sample lists of outcomes for three levels of study are presented. The review of the main influences on the educational scene during the past decade…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Interrelationships