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Tyrone Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the relationship between English Language Learners' (ELLs) English proficiency and standardized test performance. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, it incorporates quantitative data from test scores and qualitative data from teacher surveys and interviews. Findings indicate a significant correlation between ELLs' proficiency…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Proficiency, Language Teachers, Self Efficacy
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Vyn, Reuben; Wesely, Pamela M.; Neubauer, Diane – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
While a growing body of research has addressed the outcomes of K-12 foreign language (FL) study, relatively little is known about the relationship between teachers' practices and students' proficiency development (Hlas & Hlas, [Hlas, A. C., 2012]; Tschirner & Malone, [Tschirner, E., 2012]). To fill this gap, the current study, set in a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, School Districts
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Loo, Daron Benjamin; Sairattanain, Jariya – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
The discourse of deficiency in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has been perpetuated through the neoliberalisation of higher education. To explore the possibilities of disrupting this discourse, an EAP instructor, Daron, engaged with his critical friend, Jariya, in dialogic reflection. This was done on Daron's teaching journal entries through…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Disadvantaged
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Al-Wadi, Hasan – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
Due to the spread of applying standardized national examinations in addition to the normal centralized formal exams in English language teaching, EFL teachers have been urged to reshape their teaching pedagogies to respond to the demands and competencies which EFL students are required to fulfil in these exams. This study sheds light on this…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hildebrandt, Susan A.; Swanson, Pete – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Implemented in almost 900 teacher education programs across 41 states and the District of Columbia, edTPA is marketed as a content-specific, standardized portfolio assessment of beginning teacher performance. However, concerns about edTPA and its content specificity are pervasive. To that end, the researchers surveyed teacher educators with World…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kersten, Kristin; Schelletter, Christina; Bruhn, Ann-Christin; Ponto, Katharina – Online Submission, 2021
Input is considered one of the most important factors in the acquisition of lexical and grammatical skills. Input has been found to interact with other factors, such as learner cognitive skills and the circumstances where language is heard. Language learning itself has sometimes been found to enhance cognitive skills. Indeed, intensive contact…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Schissel, Jamie L.; De Korne, Haley; López-Gopar, Mario – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Multilingual practices of translanguaging -- fluid, complex, and dynamic processes of using one's complete linguistic repertoire -- have been increasingly embraced by researchers and educators in bilingual education. Applying this perspective within the field of assessment has proven more challenging. In this project, we explore the role of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Classroom Communication
Cruz Arcila, Ferney – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Drawing on a study of English language teachers' practices and identities in rural Colombia at a time of active education policy promoting English, this paper reports on how such policy has been "interpreted" and "translated" in rural schools. Informed mainly by the theory of policy enactment [Ball, S. J., Maguire, M., &…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Sharif, Khalid Sharif Mohammed; Siddiek, Ahmed Gumaa – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study emerges from the need of English Language Teachers in Sudan and Jordan to lay appropriate assessment strategies to meet the anticipated educational objectives among the learners of English. It is also hoped to improve language assessment in similar educational environments in the Arab world. We intended to find out the level of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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König, Johannes; Lammerding, Sandra; Nold, Günter; Rohde, Andreas; Strauß, Sarah; Tachtsoglou, Sarantis – Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Despite an increasing research interest in subject-specific teacher knowledge, the scientific understanding regarding teachers' professional knowledge for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is very limited. This study therefore applies standardized tests to directly assess content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ryu, Jung; Boggs, George – English Language Teaching, 2016
Twenty-first-century literacy is not confined to communication based on reading and writing only traditional printed texts. New kinds of literacies extend to multimedia projects and multimodal texts, which include visual, audio, and technological elements to create meanings. The purpose of this study is to explore how Korean secondary English…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Students, High Stakes Tests, Teaching Methods
Urdegar, Steven M. – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2019
This report examines the patterns of placement of Teach for America (TFA) teachers and the achievement of the students they taught during the 2017-18 school year. The length of time current and former TFA teachers continue as employees of the District is also explored. TFA is an organization that recruits recent college graduates/professionals to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
Urdegar, Steven M. – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2019
This report examines the patterns of placement of Teach for America (TFA) teachers and the achievement of the students they taught during the 2018-19 school year. The length of time current and former TFA teachers continue as employees of the District is also explored. TFA is an organization that recruits recent college graduates/professionals to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne; Lysenko, Larysa; Marsh, Jonathon; Gioko, Anthony – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
The research explores the impact of interactive, multimedia literacy software (ABRA) on the reading skills of early elementary students in Kenya. Twelve grade two English teachers and their students from six schools were randomly divided in half: an experimental group (N = 180) where ABRA was part of their English Language instruction and a…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
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Huang, Shu-Hsiu – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
English education in Taiwan has experienced a number of modifications over the past decade. The Ministry of Education (MOE) has initiated several reforms since 1994 with a purpose of changing the pedagogy, focusing on grammar-translation, to a more communicative one aim at cultivating learners of greater communication proficiency for the demands…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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