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University entrance language tests : a matter of justice [PDF]
, 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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Motivation in a language MOOC: issues for course designers [PDF]
, 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
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Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2021 This study constitutes a conceptual replication of Forsberg Lundell et al. (2018), who investigated whether productive collocation knowledge – a linguistic feature known to be indicative of high-level L2 proficiency – developed between the B2 and C1 ...
Julia Prentice, Fanny Forsberg Lundell
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"Thank you for a lovely day!" Contrastive thanking in textbooks for teaching English and Spanish as foreign languages [PDF]
, 2015 Thanking, as other speech acts such as apologizing or requesting,can be performed in numerous contexts and, for their analysis, many crucial variables must be taken into consideration (eg.
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Experiments with Universal CEFR Classification [PDF]
Proceedings 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
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Made in Greece: PALSO Federation and foreign language education in Greece [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2018 For over 50 years the private language school system in Greece, commonly known by the Greek name ‘frontisterion’, has pioneered the development of language studies making Greece one of the publishing market leaders in continental Europe in books and ...
Nicolaos Maras, Karen Lee
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It Will/Must/May Be a Modal Auxiliary
Romanian 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
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“A1 for Everyone”: Outline of a Plurilinguistic Project
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2020 The paper presents a new tool for approaching foreign languages. The “A1 for everyone” (A1FE1) project aims to promote multilingualism (meaning the ability of an individual to use different languages) in tune with the focuses of EU language policy, i.e. “
Lanza Stefano M., Lanza Vitalija
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Hacia un marco para los MOOC de idiomas y el aprendizaje de idiomas con asistencia móvil
Propósitos y Representaciones, 2020 En este artículo, se presenta una propuesta para un marco teórico que podría proporcionar la estructura y la coherencia necesarias para el desarrollo de aplicaciones eficaces de LMOOC (Language MOOC) y MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) de una ...
Timothy Read, Elena Barcena
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Comparing Male and Female Engineering Students’ Reading Ability through Level-Specific Tasks and CEFR- and DIALANG-Based Self-Assessment [PDF]
Iranian 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
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