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Yu-Ting Kao – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This study explores how the concept of Assessment for Learning (AfL) is practised in the CLIL contexts. It focuses on the assessment purpose of understanding and supporting students' content and language learning. Ten CLIL teachers in the bilingual program of three different regions in Taiwan were involved in the study. Results from the class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tan, Kimberly – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
In L2 assessment research, assessments have traditionally been associated with large-scale testing or formal proficiency tests, primarily to record student achievement (Turner & Purpura, 2016). Classroom-based assessments (CBAs), then, are seen as offshoots of large-scale tests, thus, designed similarly (Turner, 2012). However, CBAs serve a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Julia Reckermann, Editor; Philipp Siepmann, Editor; Frauke Matz, Editor – English Language Education, 2024
This book innovatively connects the two fields of oracy and practice-oriented empirical research in English language education. It creates synergies and proposes innovative approaches to the study of oracy in the context of learning and teaching English as a second, additional or foreign language. The book also develops a contemporary and holistic…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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de Souza Miranda, Mateus Emerson – English Teaching Forum, 2017
Students need opportunities to be creative and express themselves while learning a new language, during both classroom activities and tests at the end of a term or unit. The focus of the author's practice when assessing students' knowledge is to use creative dialogue techniques as a way to prevent students from simply repeating a given dialogue…
Descriptors: Creativity, Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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van Compernolle, Rémi A. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2015
This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, the chapters delve into a wide range of topics…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns, Psychology
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Mickan, Peter – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
This paper analyses the language practices of a teacher in an Italian bilingual class. The children were learning Italian in Year One of elementary school. The teacher consistently spoke Italian with the children. The description of the teacher's talk shows how she used Italian for classroom management, for instructions, for teaching subject…
Descriptors: Socialization, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Practices
Courtillon, Janine – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Discusses routine classroom language teaching techniques and conventional teacher behaviors that are resistant to change and that may inhibit the use of more effective language teaching strategies. Makes suggestions for alternatives, such as emphasis placed on discourse rather than grammar, and self-evaluation as an alternative to normative…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Error Correction
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Corbeil, Giselle – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
A scale of processes found most constructive for second-language learning was validated with two groups of adult French students. Instruction of one group included use of the scale. Pre- and posttests of language learning and use of processes suggest that unsuccessful language learners can be taught to improve performance. (31 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Methods
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Solomon, Jeff; Rhodes, Nancy – TESOL Journal, 1996
Reports the results of a survey that asked English-as-a-Second-Language educators to define and describe academic language, give examples of students who use it proficiently in speaking and writing, discuss problems students have with it, and provide examples of how best to assess it. (CK)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language)
Fidalgo, Reyes I.; von Schmidt, Wolff – 1995
Use of games in the second language classroom to assess class participation and development of oral skills is discussed. Difficulties in assessing oral second language skills are outlined, and a central issue is identified: the discrepancy between a syllabus in which class participation is required and students unwilling to participate due to lack…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Creativity
Brumfit, Christopher, Ed. – 1983
The papers include: "Applied Linguistics and Comunicative Language Teaching" (Christopher Brumfit); "Evaluation of the East Midlands Graded Assessment Feasibility Study" (Elaine S. Freedman); "Aspects of Standardisation within a Communicative Assessment Syllabus" (Nicola Lees); "Experimenting with…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Style, Communicative Competence (Languages)
de Vriendt, Sera – 1987
Three major issues in the second language instruction of migrant primary school children in Brussels are discussed: (1) how to develop communicative competence; (2) how to ensure correct pronunciation; and (3) how to improve nonverbal communication. In the case of pronunciation, a "soft" method without explanation about articulation or…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch
Fidalgo, Reyes I. – 1996
Use of a directed creative writing exercise to assess intermediate language students' skills is discussed. The technique was developed for second-year college Spanish instruction as an alternative to conventional writing tests in which anxiety or lack of motivation may inhibit performance. Differences in the nature of language skills (listening,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Class Activities, Classroom Communication
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers