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Classroom-Based Assessments in Linguistically Diverse Communities: A Case for Collaborative Research Methodologies
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Schissel, Jamie L.; López-Gopar, Mario; Leung, Constant; Morales, Julio; Davis, James R. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
For linguistically diverse communities, researchers have long questioned assessment approaches that disregard learners' multilingualism. Our study offers potential approaches that center contextualized, multilingual knowledges and skills within classroom-based language assessments with one teacher and his English foreign language courses for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Teaching Japanese: Consideration of Learners' Affective Variables.
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Samimy, Keiko Komiya – Theory into Practice, 1994
Responding to foreign language learners' affective needs may help enhance learners' success in Japanese. American students face many linguistic and psychological barriers when learning Japanese. The article examines such affective variables as anxiety, risk taking, and motivation as significant contributing factors for differential success in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Classroom Environment, Higher Education
The Benefits of Language Laboratories for Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language.
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Danaher, Mike; Danaher, Patrick – Language Learning Journal, 1998
Examines the benefits of language laboratories for learning Japanese. After reviewing related literature and selected issues on educational technology, the article presents results from a survey of Australian college students using a language laboratory. Overall, students appreciated and were positive about the language laboratory, though some had…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries