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Comparing Male and Female Engineering Students’ Reading Ability through Level-Specific Tasks and CEFR- and DIALANG-Based Self-Assessment [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Comparative Education, 2019
The purposes of this study were to determine a reading ability level based on the CEFR for male and female engineering students and to compare their reading levels on the CEFR and DIALANG self-assessment grids with the level based on their performance on
Mahboubeh Taghizadeh, Farshad Kazemzadeh
doaj   +1 more source

Multimedia technologies and online task-based foreign language teaching-learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Teaching and learning a foreign language at a distance implies many challenges, namely regarding oral skills. At Universidade Aberta (the Portuguese Open University), and taking into account its virtual pedagogical model (Pereira, 2007) and the Common ...
Nobre, Ana
core   +1 more source

University entrance language tests : a matter of justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
University entrance language tests are often administered under the assumption that even if language proficiency does not determine academic success, a certain proficiency level is still required.
Deygers, Bart   +2 more
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Mediation im Fremdsprachenunterricht – die neuen Deskriptoren des Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen zum Bereich Mediation und ihr Potenzial für den DaF-Unterricht an polnischen Schulen [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Translatorica, 2020
The Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), published in German translation in 2020, introduces new scales and descriptors that expand and clarify some of the key concepts of the CEFR.
Patricia Hartwich
doaj   +1 more source

Experiments with Universal CEFR Classification [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2018
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) guidelines describe language proficiency of learners on a scale of 6 levels. While the description of CEFR guidelines is generic across languages, the development of automated proficiency classification systems for different languages follow different approaches. In this paper, we explore universal CEFR
Vajjala, Sowmya, Rama, Taraka
openaire   +3 more sources

Motivation in a language MOOC: issues for course designers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Whilst several existing studies on foreign language learning have explored motivation in more traditional settings (Dörnyei, 2003), this paper presents one of the first studies on the motivation of participants in a MOOC.
Beaven, Tita   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

It Will/Must/May Be a Modal Auxiliary

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2012
The English modal verb system has proved to be a difficult linguistic concept even for advanced EFL students. Their comprehension/usage problems may be of purely morpho-syntactic and semantic nature or may also involve sociolinguistic dimensions.
Ilc Gašper
doaj   +1 more source

日本人大学生を対象にした英語学習ウエブアプリケーションの導入 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This case study examines the introduction of web-based apps to Japanese university students for skill-based English learning. The focus is on 32 students from the International Studies and Education departments at a private Japanese university.
オレクサ ロバート
core   +1 more source

English Proficiency of Students at Politeknik Negeri Balikpapan Based on TOEIC [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
English language proficiency is generally measured by English competency scores such as TOEFL and TOEIC. To be able to apply the right learning patterns for students of Politeknik Negeri Balikpapan (Poltekba) for the purpose of mastering the TOEIC, an ...
Damayanti, L. (Lilik), Gafur, A. (Abdul)
core  

Pre‐task Vocabulary Support Enhances Lexical Learning but Dampens Positive Emotions: Interactive Task Implementation in English‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
wiley   +1 more source

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