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Muhammad Mooneeb Ali, Editor; Muhammad Nadeem Anwar, Editor; Shawana Fazal, Editor; Shazia Ayyaz, Editor – IGI Global, 2025
The integration of artificial intelligence in language learning is transforming education by making language acquisition more personalized, efficient, and accessible. AI-powered tools, such as intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive learning platforms, enable learners to receive real-time feedback, customized lessons, and immersive experiences…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stoker, Ginger; Arellano, Brenda; Lee Hoon, Dong – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
New Mexico's Every Student Succeeds Act state plan set the goal for all English learner students to attain English proficiency within five years. The Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest English Learners Research Partnership conducted this study to better understand progress toward English proficiency among American Indian English learner…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, English Language Learners, Instructional Program Divisions, English (Second Language)
TESOL Press, 2013
"Standards for ESL/EFL Teachers of Adult Learners" offers performance indicators, vignettes, and evaluation tools for instructors. These clearly organized components will help instructors identify the qualities and practices to pursue in their teaching. The standards in this book address planning, instructing, and assessing as the basis…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Adult Students
Valdés, Guadalupe; Kibler, Amanda; Walqui, Aída – TESOL International Association, 2014
This professional paper builds on the work of TESOL's issue briefs, "Implementing the Common Core State Standards for English Learners: The Changing Role of the ESL Teacher" (February 2013) and Overview of the Common Core State Standards Initiatives for ELLs (March, 2013). It discusses the shifting landscape surrounding the new Common…
Descriptors: Expertise, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2011
The "TESOL Technology Standards" are applicable in a wide range of contexts: foreign language, second language, child, teen, adult, higher education, vocational education, language for specific purposes, and fully online programs; and in settings with low, medium, or high resources and access to communication technologies. Students, teachers,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Teacher Educators, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sandrock, Paul – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2010
Students continually ask, "Does this count?" "Is this on the test?" They want to know how they'll be evaluated. Discover how to answer these questions in ways that shape student learning and keep teaching focused on what really matters. Written by language expert Paul Sandrock, this superb manual clarifies precisely what…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Performance Based Assessment, Program Design
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Wang, Hong – Curriculum Journal, 2010
This study explores middle-level administrators' perceptions of the implementation of English as a foreign language curriculum policies in the Chinese tertiary context. Drawing on data collected from interviews with the department heads of six universities in a north-western city in China, the article examines their perspectives on the national…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Department Heads
Schaetzel, Kirsten; Low, Ee Ling – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2009
Adult English language learners in the United States approach the learning of English pronunciation from a wide variety of native language backgrounds. They may speak languages with sound systems that vary a great deal from that of English. The pronunciation goals and needs of adult English language learners are diverse. These goals and needs…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Administrators, Adult Learning
Minaya-Rowe, Liliana – School Administrator, 2008
Between 69 percent and 90 percent of English language learners (ELLs) in middle and high schools were born in the United States and have been in U.S. schools since kindergarten still have not achieved the academic proficiency to succeed in an all-English mainstream program. Various ELL program options are available for school districts to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1992
The final report chronicles activities for the two years of a grant to develop an intermediate-level test of Russian language proficiency based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines. The resulting test is designed to determine proficiency levels of students with two or more years of high school…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Program Descriptions
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Albus, Deb; Thurlow, Martha; Clapper, Ann – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2006
The emphasis on research-based instructional methods makes it especially important for educators to be using instructional strategies known to be effective for English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities. Unfortunately, the literature base that addresses instructional strategies for diverse populations of students with varying language…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, State Standards, Second Language Instruction, Disabilities
n/a – New York State Department of Education, 2004
The English as a Second Language (ESL) standards articulate the abilities and competencies that Limited English Proficient (LEP) and English Language Learners (ELLs) must demonstrate to successfully integrate into the English academic mainstream. The standards combine the principles of second language learning with the language development…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Second Language Instruction
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. – 2001
This framework provides Canadian curriculum writers with student learning outcomes they can use to develop curricula for international language courses. Its aim is the development of communicative competence in a specific international language (represented by applications, language competence, global citizenship, and strategies). The framework is…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Bartz, Walter H., Ed.; Strasheim, Lorraine, Ed. – 1987
This curriculum guide for Indiana's Latin education programs is intended as a model for the integration of communicative, cultural, and linguistic learning in Latin curricula and instruction and an aid in designing proficiency-based curricula and instruction. It establishes the proficiency expected at the end of each of four instructional levels…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Design, Difficulty Level
Ingram, D. E. – 1990
Materials compiled for a conference on the assessment of Japanese second language proficiency include a partially annotated bibliography of references concerning proficiency testing as it may relate to the Japanese language and an overview essay entitled "Towards the Development of Proficiency and Other Tests in Japanese as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Japanese
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