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Siekmann, Sabine; Charles, Walkie – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2011
Set against instructional practices that promote competition and individual performance, Dynamic Assessment, in our view, offers a more appropriate form of pedagogy for learners from cultural backgrounds that favour cooperation during joint activity. Indeed, these learners appear to be disadvantaged when negotiating the contrasting values and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Theories, Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages
Barnhardt, Sarah; Kevorkian, Jennifer; Delett, Jennifer – 1998
This manual is a product of the portfolio assessment project, a 3-year project on the use of portfolios as an assessment measure in elementary through higher education foreign language classrooms. Portfolio assessment is the systematic, longitudinal collection of student work created in response to specific, known instructional objectives and…
Descriptors: Charts, Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Lovik, Thomas A. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1995
Suggests that additional attention to the sequencing of the grammatical structures needed for receptive comprehension might alleviate the problems associated with first-year German textbooks. The simple past tense, word order, and the indefinite pronoun "man" are used to illustrate the concept of a receptive grammar. (14 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Charts, Course Objectives, German, Grammar
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Towell, R.; And Others – Applied Linguistics, 1996
Argues that the proceduralization of linguistic knowledge is the most important factor in the development of fluency in advanced second-language learners. Experimental results indicate that learners become more fluent (as measured by speaking rate) after a period of residence abroad. It is concluded that quantitative and qualitative evidence…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Charts, College Students, Data Analysis