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Danuta Gabrys-Barker, Editor; Eva Vetter, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
The volume offers a collection of the most recent research coming from scholars and practitioners in the field of multilingualism research in various contexts of natural/immersion environments, school/formal instruction, grounded in multilingual societies and individual multilinguality of semi-monolingual countries. The studies included in the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Luka, Ineta – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2018
Purpose: The paper aims to analyse the application of a pedagogy-based approach to designing online language learning courses. It aims to evaluate course efficiency from three perspectives -- provider, recipient and wider community perspective and define the extent to which the target course could be applied for developing tourism and hospitality…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Quality, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Brumen, Mihaela; Cagran, Branka; Rixon, Shelagh – Educational Studies, 2009
This paper concerns teacher practices in, and beliefs about, the assessment of young learners' progress in English in three Eastern European countries (Slovenia, Croatia, and the Czech Republic). The central part of the paper focuses on an international project involving empirical research into assessment of young learners' foreign language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Cookson, Simon – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is currently implementing a program to improve the language proficiency of pilots and air traffic controllers worldwide. In justifying the program, ICAO has cited a number of airline accidents that were at least partly caused by language factors. Two accidents cited by ICAO are analysed in this…
Descriptors: Accidents, Linguistics, Interference (Language), Code Switching (Language)
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Mihaljevic Djigunovic, Jelena; Nikolov, Marianne; Otto, Istvan – Language Teaching Research, 2008
This comparative research aims to provide insights into how Croatian and Hungarian 8th graders' proficiency in English as a foreign language (EFL) compares to one another in relation to organizational macro factors. A total of 717 14-year-old students participated in the study in two neighboring regions and towns of Croatia and Hungary examining…
Descriptors: Class Size, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Comparative Analysis
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Kolic-Vehovec, Svjetlana; Bajsanski, Igor – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
This study explored comprehension monitoring, use of reading strategies and reading comprehension of bilingual students at different levels of perceived proficiency in Italian. The participants were bilingual fifth to eighth-grade elementary school students from four Italian schools in Rijeka, Croatia. Students' reading comprehension was assessed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Strategies, Italian