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Wells, John – International Education Studies, 2008
This paper provides a critical analysis of the National Bilingual Programme in Colombia. It considers how and why it aims to extend the teaching of "a" foreign language in Primary and Secondary school in 1994, to the teaching of English to an internationally recognized standard in all sectors of education by 2019, while at the same time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Minnema, Jane E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; VanGetson, Gretchen R.; Jimenez, Rene – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2006
The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) has for the past four years conducted research on large-scale assessment and instructional issues for English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities, but neither NCEO's research nor any other research study has yet described large-scale assessment experiences at the local school level for…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives
Solano-Flores, Guillermo; Lara, Julia; Sexton, Ursula; Navarrete, Cecilia – 2001
This sampler of student responses to mathematics and science items was assembled to show how student responses differ depending on whether students are tested in English or in their native languages. The sampler aims to promote awareness among teachers and assessment developers that low language proficiency in English is a factor that can penalize…
Descriptors: Chinese, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Haitian Creole
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1999
The purpose the Native Language Literacy Screening Device (NLLSD) is to give English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners a sense of the native language literacy levels of learners coming into their programs. This is worth knowing because when learners have had limited schooling in their first language instructional strategies used…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Albanian, Arabic