Download or read book Measuring the Results of Teaching in the Field of Modern Foreign Languages written by George Emil Vander Beke and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Training of Teachers of the Modern Foreign Languages written by Charles Maltador Purin and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1929 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work is a part of an investigation into the teaching of the modern foreign languages which was begun in 1924 by a Committee organized under the sponsorship of the American Council on Education and working with funds supplied by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. From the first the Committee on Investigation recognized the fundamental importance which the training of secondary school teachers has for the present and future position of modern language studies in this country and took steps to sound out the situation as thoroughly as possible. The following pages contain the results of this inquiry. Even a hasty examination of Professor Purin's report will show that the foreign language teachers in this country, as a class, are poorly equipped both in the fundamentals of their subject and in the theory of teaching and the technique provided by practice under supervision. AU of these defects, as well as a lack of professional feeling, . teachers of the modern languages share with colleagues in other curriculum subjects, and all are to be explained in great measure by the recent history of our secondary school system. The deficiencies in the training of modern language teachers, resulting in a lack of fundamental skills and capacities, appear in glaring relief to every classroom visitor and are written plainly in the statistics contained in this report. Less than twenty-five per cent of the modern language teachers in the public secondary schools of the country have enjoyed opportunities beyond the college years, except such as were furnished by summer sessions. Only a little over thirty per cent of these teachers have ever visited a country where the language which they teach is spoken. Equally significant is the fact that one-third of them have not yet had three years of teaching experience and that thirty-six states in the Union still issue "blanket" certificates authorizing the holders to give instruction in any subject on the secondary school curriculum.
Download or read book Issues in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching written by K. Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching draws together a range of issues in the teaching of modern foreign languages into one volume that will encourage students and newly qualified teachers to consider and reflect on the issues so that they can make a reasoned and informed judgement about their teaching of MFL. It will be relevant for students and newly qualified teachers at both primary and secondary level and will fill a gap in their knowledge due to time constraints - and an emphasis on standards - on ITT and PGCE courses.
Download or read book The Keys to Assessing Language Performance written by Paul Sandrock and published by Actfl. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 language educators need to understand in order to successfully assess student performance. Relevant to new teachers and seasoned professionals alike, Sandrock provides step-by-step guidance on how to design assessments, illuminates the process of designing rubrics that focus on proficiency and helps educators create assessments that motivate students to offer language samples that accomplish authentic purposes. School administrators will also benefit from the section that focuses on the impact of performance assessment on instruction and program design.
Download or read book Effect of the Teacher on the Affective Component of the Process of Foreign Language Learning written by Morana Drakulić and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades, the rise of English as a lingua franca has affected the field of education in terms of definition of essential competences that would ensure the quality of foreign language teacher education who will be ready to meet the challenges of modern society. Furthermore, the birth of the communicative approach which places the learner in the center of the learning process imposes new methods and procedures in the foreign language classroom. The need for an improvement of quality in foreign language teaching, as a consequence of the contemporary 21st century fluctuations, has also been recognized in Croatia. In that sense, the Project Foreign Languages at Primary Level: Training of Teachers was designed. The Project's focus was the initial and continual professional development of foreign language teachers at primary level on the basis of which the Document Competences of Primary School Foreign Language Teachers in the Republic of Croatia was drawn up. The Document welcomes the contemporary approach of foreign language teaching and learning since it recognizes the importance of cognitive, behavioral and emotional aspect of the profession. It also highlights the importance of teacher's role in fostering motivation and positive attitudes as well as in reducing the debilitating effects of foreign language anxiety. Namely, numerous studies have shown that language teacher plays a vital role in shaping students' attitudes and motivation but may also represent one of the potential sources of foreign language anxiety. In this connection, a considerable amount of research argues that students' subjective perceptions of teacher have stronger effect on their affective variables, than those defined by 'objective' measures. However, the existing research has been, to the great extent, conducted on a secondary and university level, whereas primary level students have rarely been in the focus of the attention. Moreover, the existing studies, both in Croatia and abroad, concentrated on students' perceptions of either ideal (good) or actual language teacher in relation to their affective factors. We believe that both of these perspectives are equally important and necessary in any study which explores the relationship between students' perceptions of language teacher and their affective factors. For this reason, the central interest of this research is the investigation of elementary school foreign language teacher competences as perceived by students and their relationship with the affective component of the process iv of foreign language learning. For this purpose, we conducted an exploratory research which included both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. The quantitative part of the research included three different instruments which were used for measuring students' motivation, foreign language anxiety and their perceptions of good and actual language teacher competences, characteristics and skills. The purpose of the qualitative part of the research, in the form of a semi-structured interview, was to gather a personal perspective about the topic, i.e. to get a deeper and more detailed description of foreign language teacher competences and characteristics which students perceive as (un)important and (de)motivating. The results of our research reveal that there are statistically significant differences between the two types of competence perceptions, where more positive perceptions are ascribed to good language teacher and less positive to actual language teacher. Further analysis of data confirmed that the small difference between good and actual language teacher perceptions positively correlates with motivation. The data, in other words, confirmed that the greater the difference in perceptions on teacher's personal characteristics and instructional competences, the lower motivation. Second affective factor, foreign language anxiety, positively correlated with small differences in perceptions of teacher's intrapersonal and interpersonal characteristics and skills. This implies that the smaller the difference between the perceptions of good and actual teacher personal characteristics, the lower level of foreign language anxiety. The analysis of the obtained results also indicates that students' perceptions of their foreign language teacher statistically significantly differ in relation to age and level of achievement, whereas they do not differ in relation to students' gender as we initially hypothesized. In that sense, students with higher level of achievement assess teache's competences related to foreign language classroom instruction and teacher's intrapersonal and interpersonal characteristics and skills more positively than students with lower level of achievement. The negativity in perception of teacher's competences, characteristics and skills grows with students' age. Qualitative study results indicated the importance of teacher's intrapersonal and interpersonal characteristics since most of the students viewed the language lessons through the prism of teacher's personal characteristics. This was particularly evident v among younger students, who ascribed the most importance precisely to this aspect of teacher's profession. Older students, on the other hand, expressed satisfaction with their language teacher but with less enthusiasm than their younger peers. Regarding level of achievement, several low achievers viewed language teacher as a partial cause of their low success, and were more dissatisfied with language teacher's instructional competences, among which the most frequently mentioned was the one related to assessment methods and criteria. Taken together, obtained results confirm our general hypothesis that teacher's competences as perceived by students of various age, gender and level of achievement correlate with students' affective factors - motivation and foreign language anxiety.
Download or read book Program Summary Book for written by United States. Office of Postsecondary Education and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Educational Record written by Samuel Paul Capen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching written by K. Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching draws together a range of issues in the teaching of modern foreign languages into one volume that will encourage students and newly qualified teachers to consider and reflect on the issues so that they can make a reasoned and informed judgement about their teaching of MFL. It will be relevant for students and newly qualified teachers at both primary and secondary level and will fill a gap in their knowledge due to time constraints - and an emphasis on standards - on ITT and PGCE courses.
Download or read book Studies in Modern Language Teaching written by Elijah William Bagster-Collins and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching written by Raúl Ruiz Cecilia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language teaching approaches, methods and procedures are constantly undergoing reassessment. New ideas keep emerging as the growing complexity of the means of communication and the opportunities created by technology put language skills to new uses. In addition, the political, social and economic impact of globalisation, the new demands of the labour market that result from it, the pursuit of competitiveness, the challenges of intercultural communication and the diversification of culture have opened new perspectives on the central role that foreign languages have come to play in the development of contemporary societies. This book provides an insight into the latest developments in the field and discusses the new trends in foreign language teaching in four major areas, namely methods and approaches, teacher training, innovation in the classroom, and evaluation and assessment.
Download or read book Self assessment of Foreign Language Skills written by Mats Oskarsson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of research in self-assessment techniques for foreign language skills is based on a survey of the literature and the results of a survey of teachers, researchers, and administrators in adult education centers in many areas of the world. Two late 1970s surveys of self-assessment research and pilot experiments concerning the general validity and usefulness of learners' estimates are described, and more recent research is reviewed. A growing body of research on the use of self-assessment procedures for continuous evaluation purposes is also examined, and the survey results are reported. The pattern emerging is of consistent overall agreement of self-estimates and external criteria, but the need for practice in autonomous learning and self-directed evaluation is emphasized in some of the sources, and it is suggested that teacher training in these areas is a further prerequisite for effective development of self-evaluation techniques. A variety of self-assessment aids are described and illustrated, and it is noted that the kind of instrument seeming to yield the most accurate information consists of descriptions of concrete linguistic situations that the learner can interpret and evaluate in behavioral terms. Implications of the findings and areas needing further study are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Download or read book Foreign Language Framework for California Public Schools written by California. State Board of Education and published by California State Board of Education. This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Foreign Languages Inside the Black Box written by Jane Jones and published by Granada Learning. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms written by Andreas Bonnet and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly diverse language backgrounds. This necessitates a new understanding of foreign language learning and teaching. The volume brings together an international group of researchers of high caliber who specialize in third language acquisition, teaching English as an additional language, and multilingual education. In addition to topical overview articles on the multilingual policies pursued in Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia, as well as several contributions dealing with theoretical issues regarding multilingualism and plurilingualism, the volume also offers cutting edge case studies from multilingual acquisition research and foreign language classroom practice. Throughout the volume, multilingualism is interpreted as a valuable resource that can facilitate language education provided it is harnessed in appropriate conditions.
Download or read book Error Correction in the Foreign Language Classroom written by Mirosław Pawlak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding the place of oral and written error correction in language education by providing an exhaustive and up-to-date account of issues involved in this area, taking the stance that the provision of corrective feedback constitutes an integral part of form-focused instruction. This account places an equal emphasis on the relevant theoretical claims, the most recent research findings and everyday pedagogical concerns, particularly as they apply to the teaching of additional languages in the foreign language setting. The book will be of relevance and significance not only to specialists in the field of second language acquisition, but also to graduate and doctoral students carrying out research in the area of form-focused instruction and error correction. Many parts of the volume will also be of considerable interest and utility to teachers of foreign languages at different educational levels.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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