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Cincalová, Simona; Cerná, Martina – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
Volunteering is an activity that enables the development of an individual's competency and is also an area of interest both of society and the academic community. This article aims to compare the motivation for volunteering and the experience of volunteering with students within helping professions and economics. For the purpose of this research,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Economics Education, Volunteers
UNICEF, 2021
This present volume is the third in a series of education sector analysis (ESA) guidelines following two volumes published in 2014. The series provides methodologies and applied examples for diagnosing education systems and informing national education policies and plans. This volume proposes guidelines to strengthen national capacities in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Research Methodology, Comparative Education
Rochat, Shékina – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2018
Motivational interviewing (MI; Miller & Rollnick, 2013, "Motivational interviewing: Helping people change" (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.) is receiving increasing attention in the field of career counselling. This method has been proven effective to foster motivation in various contexts. However, MI lacks of theoretical…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Motivation Techniques, Guidelines, Comparative Analysis
New Meridian Corporation, 2020
New Meridian Corporation has developed the "Quality Testing Standards and Criteria for Comparability Claims" (QTS). The goal of the QTS is to provide guidance to states that are interested in including content from the New Meridian item bank and intend to make comparability claims with "other assessments" that include New…
Descriptors: Testing, Standards, Comparative Analysis, Guidelines
Jiang, Xiangying; Rollinson, Joseph; Plonsky, Luke; Gustafson, Erin; Pajak, Bozena – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Duolingo is a commercial language-teaching platform that offers free courses on the web and on mobile apps. This study reports the ACTFL listening and reading proficiency levels of adult Duolingo learners who had completed beginning-level courses in Spanish or French. The participants (n = 225) were learners residing in the United States, had…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mendoza, Arturo; Martínez, Joaquín – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Language placement tests (LPTs) are used to assess students' proficiency in a progressive manner in the target language. Based on their performance, students are assigned to stepped language courses. These tests are usually considered low stakes because they do not have significant consequences in students' lives, which is perhaps the reason why…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bueno-Alastuey, M. Camino; Nemeth, Katalin – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
To date, several studies have investigated the potential benefits of using Quizlet and podcasts for vocabulary development. However, they have mainly focused on the use of available material, and its effects on receptive vocabulary acquisition and students' motivation. In contrast, relatively little has been done to study the effects of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Audio Equipment, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
Rassaei, Ehsan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The main purpose of the present study is to propose a framework for implementing group dynamic assessment (DA) using students' smartphones for improving and assessing EFL learners' ability to produce well-formed and appropriate requests. This study focuses on five learner reciprocity moves during DA interactions to get deeper insights into the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sasayama, Shoko; Garcia Gomez, Pablo; Norris, John M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
This report describes the development of efficient second language (L2) writing assessment tasks designed specifically for low-proficiency learners of English to be included in the "TOEFL® Essentials"™ test. Based on the can-do descriptors of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages for the A1 through B1 levels of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
Pattemore, Anastasia; Muñoz, Carmen – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
This study explores the effects of extensive audio-visual input with three captioning modes -- unenhanced captions, textually enhanced captions, and no captions -- on learning a variety of L2 grammatical constructions and examines the effects of three learnability factors: construction type, frequency, and recency. A total of 112 participants…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zabala-Delgado, Julia; Sawicka, Barbara – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
The Association of Language Centres in Higher Education in Spain (ACLES) and the Association of Academic Foreign Language Centres in Poland (SERMO) established the mutual recognition of their English language competence certificates (CertAcles and ACERT examinations) in 2017, on the basis of previously performed analyses of routine pre-exam and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Papageorgiou, Spiros; Wu, Sha; Hsieh, Ching-Ni; Tannenbaum, Richard J.; Cheng, Mengmeng – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
The past decade has seen an emerging interest in mapping (aligning or linking) test scores to language proficiency levels of external performance scales or frameworks, such as the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), as well as locally developed frameworks, such as China's Standards of English Language Ability (CSE). Such alignment is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
Shih, Ying-Chun; Chern, Chiou-lan; Reynold, Barry Lee – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2018
An intact 10th grade English as a Foreign Language vocational business junior college reading intervention class (n = 52) received 16 weeks of integrated reading strategy instruction with extensive reading while an intact traditional class (n = 48) received traditional intensive reading instruction with extensive reading. The intervention class…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Intervention
Lay, Keith J.; Yavuz, Mehmet A. – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
This study investigates the possibility and efficacy of paper-based, in-class, data-driven learning (DDL) of academic lexical bundles below the C1 level of proficiency described by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR; advanced high ACTFL). A two-stage experimental design involving three groups (n = 41) and 24 two-to-four word academic…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Rating Scales, Guidelines, Second Language Learning
Supandi, Supandi; Waluya, S. B.; Rochmad, Rochmad; Suyitno, Hardi; Dewi, Kamelia – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Mathematical representation is an important skill in mathematics learning that enables students to interpret and solve problems with ease. However, building confidence in such a skill can be difficult for some students, especially for those who lack self-motivation skills. Therefore, this study examines the effects of the think-talk-write strategy…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Self Efficacy, Learning Processes