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Receptive Vocabulary Size Estimates for General and Academic Vocabulary at a Multi-Campus Australian University
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Clarence Green; Melania Pantelich; Michael Barrow; Daya Weerasinghe; Rachel Daniel – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
There are few published estimates of vocabulary sizes amongst students in tertiary education. Research does not offer estimates of the vocabulary size tertiary students might be expected to possess, though estimates exist for K-12 education, some EFL contexts, and the general population. Such research is important. For reading comprehension during…
Descriptors: Intervention, Undergraduate Students, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
Assessment "of" Agency or Assessment "for" Agency?: A Critical Realist Action Research Study into the Impact of a Processfolio Assessment within UK HE Preparatory Courses for International Students
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Pearson, Jayne – Educational Action Research, 2021
This paper reports on a three-year action research project action investigating the relationship between assessment as a social structure and the agency of students within a preparatory course for postgraduate international students at a UK Russell Group University. Action research into academic writing assessment within this highly constrained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Introductory Courses, Personal Autonomy
Literacy: The Critical Role of Teacher Knowledge. The Thirty-Ninth Yearbook: A Double Peer-Reviewed Publication of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers
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Johnson, Robin D., Ed.; Araujo, Juan J., Ed.; Cossa, Nedra, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2017
The theme for the 60th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Literacy: The Critical Role of Teacher Knowledge. This Yearbook provides a snapshot of the highlights of the meeting and sampling of some of the proceedings. The focus is on three questions surrounding the conference theme: (1) What do…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Literacy, Reading Teachers, Researchers