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Download full textGossman, Ginger L. – Online Submission, 2009
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) aimed to improve teacher practice and improve student outcomes at Lanier and International High Schools in AISD. Overall, QTEL was moderately effective based on the myriad of mixed program results.
Descriptors: English Language Learners, International Schools, High School Students, Teacher Effectiveness
Peer reviewedAlcon, Eva – International Journal of English Studies, 2007
This study examines the effectiveness of teachers' incidental focus on form on vocabulary learning. Seventeen 45-minute audio-recorded teacher-led conversation, 204 learners' diaries (17 sessions x 12 learners) reporting what the participants had learned after each conversational class, 204 post-test translations, and 204 delayed post-test…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Curry, Janice – Online Submission, 2008
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's prekindergarten program for the 2007-2008 school year.
Descriptors: School Readiness, School Districts, Preschool Education, Grants
Llach, Mª Pilar Agustin; Catalan, Rosa M. – International Journal of English Studies, 2007
The purpose of this study is to ascertain whether the type of instruction (English as vehicular language and English as a subject) is related to the use of reiteration ties. In the first place, we identified, classified, and counted the number and kind of reiteration ties used by two groups of EFL learners. Secondly, we examined whether…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nouns
Nielsen, Francois; Fernandez, Roberto M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 1981
The data and analyses presented in this report are from the first (1980) wave of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) study, "High School and Beyond," a longitudinal study of U.S. high school seniors and sophomores. This study was conducted for NCES by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Lee, Yong-Won; Breland, Hunter; Muraki, Eiji – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
This study has investigated the comparability of computer-based testing (CBT) writing prompts in the Test of English as a Foreign Language™ (TOEFL®) for examinees of different native language backgrounds. A total of 81 writing prompts introduced from July 1998 through August 2000 were examined using a three-step logistic regression procedure for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A.; Lee, Yong-Won – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This study assessed the factor structure of the LanguEdge™ test and the invariance of its factors across language groups. Confirmatory factor analyses of individual tasks and subsets of items in the four sections of the test, Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing, was carried out for Arabic-, Chinese-, and Spanish-speaking test takers. Two…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Language Tests, Factor Analysis, Semitic Languages
