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Mauro Mediavilla; María-Jesús Mancebón; Luis Pires; José-María Gómez-Sancho – Research Papers in Education, 2023
In the academic year of 2004-2005, the Spanish region of Madrid began to implement a bilingual educational programme (MBP hereinafter) in state schools. One of the objectives of this programme was to make the study of a foreign language (English) accessible to students from economically disadvantaged families who cannot afford private foreign…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, School Choice, Bilingual Schools, International Assessment
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Kateryn Rannu; Aleksandra Ljalikova; Katrin Poom-Valickis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite Estonia being ranked among the highest performing nations in the world-wide testing of students, these encouraging results are somewhat overshadowed by the challenge to overcome the divided school system with different languages of learning that impacts crucially on students' social, academic and professional paths. The study examines…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Giseung – Journal of Education, 2022
This article examines the conceivable rationales as to why Korean students' English-speaking proficiency scores are not as outstanding as other international standardized test scores such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Despite the efforts of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Achievement Tests
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Azzolini, D.; Campregher, S.; Madia, J. E. – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the drivers of English Language Competence (ELC) in a representative sample of European adolescents. School factors -- such as English instruction time and English onset -- are found to play an important role, especially in countries whose official languages are more distant from English. However,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Skills, Adolescents, Second Language Instruction
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Madden, Oneil N. – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The interconnectivity of peoples worldwide is sufficient rationale for foreign language learners to develop the relevant competences for intercultural interactions in both local and global--"glocal" contexts. This study presents a conceptualisation of "glocal" competence for Jamaican foreign language teaching professionals from…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction