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Ritz, Catherine; Sherf, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This large-scale study used a survey to collect data on K-12 world language classrooms in Massachusetts public schools, focusing on core instructional practices, curriculum, and assessment. The study resulted in 383 individual teacher completed responses, representing 188 districts, which was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Kindergarten
Sedor, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This longitudinal, multi-semester study investigates the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in university-level communicative Spanish classrooms to find out how instructor feedback affects student performance on IPA assessments, if at all, and in what ways do teachers and students use feedback from the IPAs in their teaching and learning, if…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Tests, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation
Borowczyk, Margaret – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
The introduction of the Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) has presented a potent opportunity for community heritage language schools to credential the heritage language proficiency of their students in a U.S. context. This study explores the involvement of community heritage language schools in the SoBL initiative. It investigates how seven heritage…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Heritage Education, Barriers
Troyan, Francis J.; Sembiante, Sabrina F.; King, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This article contributes to broader discussions of the knowledge base for language teacher education; the standards and policies that inform world language teacher education; and the need for a systematic, principled, and robust theory of language to underpin contexualized world language teaching and learning. Specifically, it proposes that the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Standards, Longitudinal Studies
Schwedhelm, Maria C.; King, Kendall A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
State-issued seals and certificates of biliteracy are increasingly common nationwide. Nevertheless, limited research to date has examined how this state legislation functions as language in education policy and the ideological foundations of these policies. Addressing this gap, the present paper examines state seals as an instance of neoliberal…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, State Legislation, Language of Instruction
Brown, Alan V.; Plonsky, Luke; Teimouri, Yasser – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
Much of applied linguistics research has been concerned with classroom-based second language (L2) development as it offers an ideal setting for examining the institutional ecology of L2 learning and teaching. However, scholars have continued to call for greater attention to the operationalization of constructs, selection of valid assessments, and…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Martel, Jason; Bailey, Kathleen M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
To date, research on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) has focused principally on student performance, largely neglecting the experiences of instructors. This is a substantial gap, for it is instructors who are responsible for both designing and administering the IPA. The present study, therefore, used concepts from the literature on…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation
Kaplan, Carolyn Shemwell – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Previous research has examined world language classroom-based assessment practices as well as the impact of the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, 1999) on practice. However, the extent to which K-12 teachers' assessment practices reflect national and state…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research, State Standards
Troyan, Francis J.; Kaplan, Carolyn Shemwell – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
In response to the call for improving teacher candidates' familiarity with the assessment tasks and format of the edTPA (Hildebrandt & Swanson, 2014), this single case study investigated the reflective writing development of Jena, a K-12 Spanish teacher candidate, and her evolution in a pedagogy that focused on the development of writing two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Certification
Cox, Troy L.; Bown, Jennifer; Burdis, Jacob – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
This study investigates the effect of proficiency- vs. performance-based elicited imitation (EI) assessment. EI requires test-takers to repeat sentences in the target language. The accuracy at which test-takers are able to repeat sentences highly correlates with test-takers' language proficiency. However, in EI, the factors that render an item…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Imitation, Sentences, Correlation
Anton, Marta – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This article reports on the implementation of diagnostic assessment in an advanced Spanish language program at the university level. Particular attention is given to the use of dynamic assessment practices as a way to assess language abilities, intervene in learning, and document learners' growth. Dynamic assessment is conceptually based on…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Diagnostic Tests
Fukuya, Yoshinori J; Martinez-Flor, Alicia – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
The effects of data-gathering methods on pragmatic data have been well documented, yet an inquiry into the interactive effects of assessment tasks with pragmatic instruction has received scant attention. This study investigated the interaction between two assessment tasks (e-mail and phone) and two types of pragmatic instruction (explicit and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, English (Second Language), Pragmatics, Data Collection
Angell, John; DuBravac, Stayc; Gonglewski, Margaret – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
This article examines the process by which college-level foreign language programs evaluate and select instructional materials for beginning level courses. A review of the relevant literature reveals an ambivalent relationship with textbooks, often the default curriculum for language courses. Despite textbooks' apparent key role in language…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Second Language Programs, Textbook Selection, Foreign Language Books
Schulz, Renate A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
Numerous publications, including the "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century" (National Standards, 1999), emphasize the importance of cultural understanding in the development of intercultural competence in foreign language learning. However, there is no agreement on how culture should be defined operationally in the context…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Cultural Awareness

Dwyer, David J.; Hiple, David V. – Foreign Language Annals, 1988
Discusses the results of a workshop examining the application of American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages proficiency testing to African languages, focusing on the possibility of an alternative testing procedure for those languages for which certified testers are not available and the potentials and problems of a team assessment…
Descriptors: African Languages, Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Language Tests