Standardized achievement tests that are used for assessment and accountability purposes may not provide reliable and valid outcomes for English language learners (ELLs) because …
B Swierzbin, J Reimer - Language awareness, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This mixed-methods study uses concept maps to investigate the effects of an English pedagogical grammar course on the beliefs of teachers-in-training (n= 40) enrolled over a 2 …
KL Gallagher, A Odozi - Contemporary School Psychology, 2015 - Springer
The quality of instruction in the classroom is the most powerful leverage point for school improvement because it is the only thing over which educators have a significant degree of …
G Yu - The companion to language assessment, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In the field of language assessment, the development and use of performance assessment have been driven or inspired largely by communicative language teaching and learning …
This research created, implemented and evaluated the impact of a language unit designed to increase linguistic knowledge and change attitudes toward linguistic diversity for …
O Saltik, SÇ Zenci, H Pilanci - African Educational Research Journal, 2020 - ERIC
About 2 million Syrians of approximately 3.6 million who were forced to immigrate to Turkey due to unfavorable conditions in Syria are composed of adults. In order to maintain Syrians' …
In order to be successful in an educational setting, a student must acquire a particular register of language specific to academia, or an academic register. It cannot be acquired …
To comply with federal accountability requirements, English learners (ELs) in Georgia must demonstrate progress in academic English language proficiency (ELP) and academic …
SL Smith, LC de Oliveira - The Handbook of TESOL in K‐12, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Teaching the specific knowledge, strategies, and skills pertaining to English language arts (ELA) is especially critical to support emergent to advanced bilingual (EAB) students' …