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Zhao Shurong; Song Junxia – SAGE Open, 2025
Emotional experiences significantly affect students' health, learning outcomes, productivity, and social interactions. Therefore, investigating learners' emotional experiences in typical technology-related scenarios during the information age is crucial and meaningful. Utilizing assessment to bridge online and offline activities serves as a…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Blended Learning, College Students, Online Courses
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Strong, Kim; Escamilla, Kathy – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2023
Grounded in QuantCrit, this study expands upon "opportunity gap" research and the conceptualization of the "Long-Term English Learner" (LTEL) label as a reflection of inadequate learning environments rather than student characteristics by using district-level data to explore the relationship between systemic contextual factors…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Labeling (of Persons)
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Deng, Qizhen; Trainin, Guy – Reading Psychology, 2023
English language learners (ELLs) lack academic vocabulary knowledge, an essential component that explains much of the persistent achievement gap between students who start schools as ELLs and their monolingual peers. This single-subject experimental design study addressed this issue by focusing on self-regulated vocabulary learning that helps ELLs…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English Language Learners, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language
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Aslantas, Ismail – Education Sciences, 2020
It is widely believed that the teacher is one of the most important factors influencing a student's success at school. In many countries, teachers' salaries and promotion prospects are determined by their students' performance. Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure teacher effectiveness to reward or penalize teachers. The aim…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Predictor Variables, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness
Ghasemi, Farshad – Online Submission, 2020
The scope and purpose of educational processes have been heavily modified under the influence of psychological breakthroughs and their developmental perspectives in recent decades. This book is an attempt to address some of the key psychological aspects in the literature classified into emotional, cognitive, and psychological perspectives with a…
Descriptors: Psychology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psychological Patterns
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Massri, Rola A. – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Learning English in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) can be a challenging experience. Nevertheless, being proficient in English language guarantees better job opportunities in various fields and thus learners need to acquire an acceptable level of proficiency. Recognizing its significant role in the learners' academic and professional excellence,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Li, Zheng; Rubie-Davies, Christine Margaret – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This study was designed to investigate teacher expectation effects for intact student groups (rather than individuals) in tertiary settings, which have been little studied in the literature. The participants were 50 teachers and their 4617 first-year undergraduate students learning English as a foreign language at two universities in China.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Mayor, Christine; Suarez, Eliana B. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2019
Despite widespread discussion in the United States, up until now there has not been a review of the demographic and contextual factors associated with Canadian academic achievement. Using Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) framework, a scoping review was conducted to answer two questions: What demographic and contextual factors are most commonly used in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
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Carlbaum, Sara – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This article analyses and critically discusses how context is relevant when constructing and upholding an equivalent education for all within the neo-liberal educational regime of marketisation and accountability. At the centre of the article is a study of national school inspection reports in four municipalities in Sweden, exploring performance…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Inspection, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
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Scarino, Angela – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2012
In school languages education in Australia at present there is an increasing diversity of languages and learners learning particular languages that results from a greater global movement of students. This diversity builds on a long-established profile of diversity that reflects the migration history of Australia. It stands in sharp contrast to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Context Effect, Rating Scales
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Jang, Eun-Young; Jimenez, Robert T. – Theory Into Practice, 2011
Studies on second language (L2) learners' strategies tended to characterize strategies as individual learners' cognitive predispositions or personality traits, leaving a critical question unanswered: Why do learners use different strategies in different contexts? From a sociocultural perspective, this article pursued this question by focusing on…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Language Skills
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Šori, Iztok; Šušteric, Nika; Gaber, Slavko – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2011
Achievement gaps between immigrant and native students indicate failure to assure educational equity in the majority of countries assessed by the Programme for International Student Assessment in 2009 (PISA, 2009). The present article explains disparate achievement results in Europe, first testing the hypothesis of old and new democracies. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Migrant Children, Academic Achievement
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Aguirre-Munoz, Zenaida; Amabisca, Anastasia A. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2010
Past research demonstrates the critical role of the context of learning in the achievement of students. This body of work justifies research and development of more contextualized opportunity to learn (OTL) models. We expound on an OTL framework that represents contextual features that can enrich or constrain opportunities for English language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Cultural Influences, Context Effect
Kugler, Eileen Gale; Price, Olga Acosta – Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, 2009
A child who seems disinterested may actually be depressed, living with parents who themselves are disengaged and depressed as they struggle to adjust. A student with violent outbursts, who might just appear undisciplined, can be reliving the emotion of a turbulent event in a war-torn country, experiencing a heightened "flight or fight" response.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Social Isolation, Second Language Learning
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Ragan, Alex; Lesaux, Nonie – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
Identification of a language minority learner for placement in a program for English Language Learners (ELLs), and the length of the support program, may have a significant effect on the student's academic achievement. Widespread anecdotal evidence suggests that criteria used to make placement decisions vary widely across the U.S. This study…
Descriptors: Identification, Language Minorities, Placement, Second Language Learning
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