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Foreign Language Teachers' Perceptions of Students' Academic Skills, Affective Characteristics, and Proficiency: Replication and Follow-up Studies
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Sparks, Richard L.; Ganschow, Leonore; Artzer, Marjorie E.; Siebenhar, David; Plageman, Mark – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
Two studies explore the relationship between foreign language teachers' perceptions of their students' academic skills and affective characteristics and their native language skills, foreign language aptitude, and oral and written foreign language proficiency. In Study I (replication), students who scored significantly lower on native language and…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Language Proficiency, Language Aptitude, Language Teachers
PLS Path Modelling with Latent Variables: Analysing School Survey Data Using Partial Least Squares--Part II.
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Noonan, Richard; Wold, Herman – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1980
The specification and estimation of a partial least squares model is discussed in terms of assessing the magnitude of the effects of a variety of differences among Swedish schools on the cognitive and affective outcomes of lower secondary students in science. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Achievement, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis
Socializing the Expression of Affect: An Overview of Affective Particle Use in the Japanese as a Foreign Language Classroom.
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Ohta, Amy Snyder – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents a longitudinal study of teacher talk that examines the use of affective particles in the language of the university-level elementary Japanese as a foreign language classroom. Results reveal that affective particles are used far less frequently in the classroom language analyzed than in ordinary conversation and that significant…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, College Students, Epistemology