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The Competence and Warmth of Thai Students' Attitudes towards Varieties of English: The Effect of Gender and Perceptions of L1 Diversity
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McKenzie, Robert M.; Kitikanan, Patchanok; Boriboon, Phaisit – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Previous language attitude research indicates that presenting speech forms allows listeners to index information about and attach social meaning to the perceived group(s) of speakers. Despite the volume of research undertaken elsewhere in Asia, there appear to be no in-depth studies investigating Thai nationals' evaluations of specific varieties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Attitudes, English
Linguistic Skills Involved in Learning to Spell: An Australian Study
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Daffern, Tessa – Language and Education, 2017
Being able to accurately spell in Standard English requires efficient coordination of multiple knowledge sources. Therefore, spelling is a word-formation problem-solving process that can be difficult to learn. The present study uses Triple Word Form Theory as a conceptual framework to analyse Standard English spelling performance levels of…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Spelling, Elementary School Students, Morphology (Languages)
Comparing Student Perceptions of the Classroom Climate Created by U.S. American and International Teaching Assistants
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Meyer, Kevin R.; Mao, Yuping – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
Previous studies have revealed that American undergraduate students complain about International Teaching Assistants' (ITAs) lack of English proficiency and rate ITAs lower than American Teaching Assistants (ATAs) on teaching evaluations. This study investigates student perceptions of classroom climate to discover how ITAs might overcome students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Gender, Geographic Locations, Achievement Goals and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students from Borno State, Nigeria
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Musa, Alice K.J. – Research in Education, 2013
The paper examined gender, geography location, achievement goals and academic performance of senior secondary school students in Borno State, Nigeria. The sample consists of 827 students from 18 public boarding secondary schools across South and North of Borno State: 414 (50.1 per cent) males and 413 (49.9 per cent) are females; 414 (50.1 per…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Geographic Location
Do Some Schools Narrow the Gap? Differential School Effectiveness Revisited
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Strand, Steve – Review of Education, 2016
Relatively little research has explored whether schools differ in their effectiveness for different group of pupils (e.g. by ethnicity, poverty or gender), for different curriculum subjects (e.g. English, mathematics or science) or over time (different cohorts). This paper uses multilevel modelling to analyse the national test results at age 7 and…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Children, Elementary School Students
The Development of Monophthongal Vowels in Korean: Age and Sex Differences
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Lee, Soyoung; Iverson, Gregory K. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
The purpose of this study was to acoustically examine the developmental characteristics of fundamental (f[subscript o]) and formant frequencies (F1 and F2) in vowels produced by Korean male and female children in two age ranges (5 and 10 years of age). The study also compared formant frequency values among Korean children with those from existing…
Descriptors: Vowels, English, Age Differences, Gender Differences