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Stefano Hollis – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2023
A growing portion of international schools are franchised branches of schools originally founded in other countries. The first of such schools opened in 1996 and there are now almost 100 globally. Expansionist schools are primarily elite, English private schools, with concentrations of their franchises developing in the Middle East, Southeast…
Descriptors: Marketing, Advantaged, International Schools, Private Schools
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Alshayban, Abdullah; Alghammas, Abdurrazzag – TESOL International Journal, 2020
This study examined how students who do not speak English as their first language rely on their native tongue while studying English and participating in English courses. The researchers focused primarily on student opinions and perspectives related to their first language. Data were collected from 175 respondents through an online survey; a…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Schmidgall, Jonathan; Powers, Donald E. – Language Testing, 2021
In this study we examined the extent to which "TOEIC"® Speaking test scores relate to evaluations by professionals in the international workplace, the target language use domain of TOEIC tests. Linguistic laypersons in 10 countries were invited to participate in an online research survey. The survey incorporated a stratified sample of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Scores