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Angxuan Chen; Yuyue Zhang; Jiyou Jia; Min Liang; Yingying Cha; Cher Ping Lim – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Language assessment plays a pivotal role in language education, serving as a bridge between students' understanding and educators' instructional approaches. Recently, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have introduced transformative possibilities for automating and personalising language assessments. Objectives:…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests
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Daniel Yu-Sheng Chang; Ming Huei Lin; Jia-Ying Lee – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
This study explored the language assessment literacy (LAL) level and language testing and assessment (LTA) needs of 57 English teachers at senior high school level in Taiwan. An LAL test, three quantitative questionnaires and a qualitative survey were administered, conveying the overall LAL level and LTA needs of the participants. The qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Multiple Literacies, English (Second Language)
Kelley, Elizabeth Spencer; Barker, R. Michael; Peters-Sanders, Lindsey; Madsen, Keri; Seven, Yagmur; Soto, Xigrid; Olsen, Wendy; Hull, Katharine; Goldstein, Howard – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: Many children begin school with limited vocabularies, placing them at a high risk of academic difficulties. The goal of this study was to examine the effects of a vocabulary intervention program, "Story Friends," designed to improve vocabulary knowledge of at-risk preschool children. Method: Twenty-four early-childhood…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, At Risk Students
Quynh Tien Le; Morgan Polikoff – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Castañeda v. Pickard (1981) mandated that educational programs for emergent bilinguals be tested for program efficacy. Since English language development (ELD) curricular materials are one part of an instructional program, we assess this mandate by examining the effectiveness of ELD materials in Texas. Using local linear matching, we find that…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Gutiérrez-Clellen, Vera F. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
There has been a growing concern about how best to address the needs of dual language learners with language impairments. Most dual language programmes have been evaluated with children with typical language development (TLD) and as a result, very little is known about the effect of these programmes on children with language disabilities. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Impairments, Oral Language, Preschool Children
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Dubetz, Nancy E. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The ability to speak English offers young adults in Brazil opportunities to prepare for the global job market and promotes cross cultural understanding, which are national curriculum goals for public education. The study reported in this article documents the implementation of the "Empregabilidade," "Tecnologia e…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Atai, Mahmood Reza; Mazlum, Farhad – Curriculum Journal, 2013
The present study investigates English language teaching (ELT) curriculum planning in Iran's Ministry of Education and its implementation by teachers. We studied programme evaluation; needs analysis; the ELT-specific documents; communication channels between planning and practice levels; teacher evaluation and student assessment; interpretation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Pellerin, Martine; Montes, Carlos Soler – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2012
The study explores the effectiveness of the implementation of blended teaching (BT) by combining the Spanish online resource "Aula Virtual de Espanol" (AVE) with the face-to-face (F2F) delivery approach in second language Spanish programs in two high schools in Alberta, Canada. Findings demonstrate the effectiveness of combining the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Web Based Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness