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Direct linkVanblaere, Bénédicte; Devos, Geert – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: Department heads play a pivotal role in the functioning of departments in secondary schools. However, quantitative research about the role of departmental leadership for the development of professional learning communities (PLCs) in subject departments in secondary schools remains scarce. As PLCs are seen as promising contexts for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries, Departments
Download full textLu, Zhongshe; Liu, Meihua – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The present study explored the interrelations between foreign language (FL) reading anxiety, FL reading strategy use and their interactive effect on FL reading comprehension performance at the tertiary level in China. Analyses of the survey data collected from 1702 university students yielded the following results: (a) Both Foreign Language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Correlation
Ma, Ke – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study investigates the effects of using an online Automated Essay Assessing (AEA) system on EFL graduate students' writing. Eighty four EFL graduate students divided into the treatment group and the control group participated in this study. The treatment group was asked to use an AEA system to assist their essay writing. Both groups were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Chuang, Hui-Kai; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Dixon, L. Quentin – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
How proficiency in reading the first language (L1) influences proficiency in reading in the second language (L2) was explored in this study. Reading scores in Mandarin Chinese (L1) and in English (L2) for 30,000 Taiwanese ninth-grade students were randomly selected from all who took the national Basic Competency Test during a 6-year period in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Statistical Significance, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
Chaffee, Kathryn E.; Noels, Kimberly A.; McEown, Maya Sugita – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Positive psychology encompasses the study of positive outcomes, optimal functioning, and resilience in difficult circumstances. In the context of language learning, positive outcomes include academic engagement, self-determined motivation, persistence in language learning, and eventually becoming a proficient user of the language. These…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Authoritarianism, Classroom Techniques, Psychology
Birjandi, Parviz; Bagherkazemi, Marzieh – English Language Teaching, 2010
In the face of too much incoming information and too many people trying to convince us in today's world, the ability to think critically gains an ever greater saliency as a prime goal of student and teacher education. The present study aimed at substantiating the relationship between EFL teachers' critical thinking ability and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
