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Gahlsdorf Terrell, Dianna; Sherman, Diana – Action in Teacher Education, 2022
This qualitative case study responds to calls for research on the ways critical reflection develops in preservice and novice teachers. While evaluating capacity to reflect is a dominant practice in teacher education, few studies explore empirically how different factors impact teachers' reflection. Building from earlier research that…
Descriptors: Reflection, Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Abrar-ul-Hassan, Shahid – TESOL Journal, 2014
Learner motivation is considered a vital factor in second language instruction. An analysis of motivation types and degrees can reveal learners' expectations and learning objectives. The present study analyzes the motivational patterns of a group of English for academic and professional purposes (EAPP) learners while focusing on types and degrees…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Likert Scales
Miller, Tate – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study, based on a quasi-experimental static group comparison design, was to determine the extent to which intercultural competency (ICC) training might be related to perceived levels of conflict (i.e., disagreements related to cultural misunderstandings and perceptions) among multicultural groups of students who participated in…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Wilson, Stacy; Newell, Mallory; Fuller, Ryan – California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2010
Although public universities account for most of the higher education enrollment in California, independent colleges and universities make an important contribution to meeting enrollment demand. California's 76 independent non-profit colleges and universities provide a wide range of degree and certificate programs. In fall 2008, the independents…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Universities, Economic Factors
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Xi, Xiaoming – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
Although the primary use of the speaking section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-based test (TOEFL[R] iBT Speaking) is to inform admissions decisions at English medium universities, it may also be useful as an initial screening measure for international teaching assistants (ITAs). This study provides criterion-related…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Speech Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Chou, Chun-Hui; Bartz, Kevin – California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2007
This paper evaluates the effect of Chinese non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) on Chinese ESL students' struggles with English syntax. The paper first classifies Chinese learners' syntactic errors into 10 common types. It demonstrates how each type of error results from an internal attempt to translate a common Chinese construction into…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1976
Although enrollment is one of the bases by which the state funds its segments of higher education, different assumptions and calculation methodologies exist between the California State University and Colleges and the University of California in determining the enrollment statistics reported for budgetary purposes. The state legislature therefore…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance