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Critical pedagogy and language teachers` language proficiency: Towards critical language proficiency

open access: yesRumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
Studies on language proficiency of foreign language teachers have evoked considerable interest in recent decades. However, only mainstream core skills have been propounded in line with the framework of conventional approaches that have ignored critical perspectives.
openaire   +1 more source

Proficiency Testing and Language Teaching: Russian and Polish [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2008
This paper explores the potential application of proficiency testing in U.S. colleges and universities. Specific consideration is giv-en to: the Oral Proficiency Interview, based on ILR or ACTFL guidelines, administered on a large scale at the Defense ...
Rimma Garn
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Language proficiency among immigrants and the establishment of interethnic relations: a comparative analysis of Bilbao, Lisbon and Rotterdam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Despite the increasing interest in exploring language proficiency among immigrants as a quintessential element for their economic integration in the host country, less attention has been devoted to the social impacts that destination-language ...
Esteves, Alina, Sampaio, Dora
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Verbal Working Memory but Not Attention Is Related to Language Proficiency: Evidence from Multilingual Speakers

open access: yesPsychologica Belgica, 2020
Numerous studies have shown a consistent relationship between verbal working memory (WM) and native-language as well as non-native language learning abilities.
Marion Bouffier   +2 more
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The Role of Listening Proficiency Level in EFL Learners’ Strategic Competence [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Language Horizons, 2022
Examination of language learners’ strategy use within the context of language ability may contribute to realizing the role of language knowledge in strategic competence.
Maryam Haghighi   +2 more
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Dutch-Indonesian Interlanguage Psycholinguistic Study on Syntax [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article focuses on the psycholinguistic study of the syntactic aspects of Dutch-Indonesian interlanguage. The study is based on the interlanguage syntax observed in an oral test given to thirty Indonesian learners of Dutch as a second language ...
Riyanto, S. (Sugeng)
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English language proficiency, complete tooth loss, and recent dental visits among older adults in the United States

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2020
Objectives: This study sought to provide population-based estimates of complete tooth loss and recent dental visits among older adults in the United States by English language proficiency.
Andriana M Foiles Sifuentes   +2 more
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Language Dominance Modulates the Perception of Spanish Approximants by Late Bilinguals Language Dominance Modulates the Perception of Spanish Approximants by Late Bilinguals

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
The ability to discriminate phonetically similar first language (L1) and second language (L2) sounds has significant consequences for achieving target-like proficiency in second-language learners.
Martha Black   +2 more
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Influence of Language Learning Strategies to the English Proficiency Test Performance of College Students

open access: yesJPAIR, 2018
Learning of English as second and even foreign language has been stressed out in all levels of education. Thus, teachers and researchers have been focusing on describing externally observable behaviors of language learners, followed by attempts to label ...
Harieth Cawagdan – Cuarto   +1 more
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Influence of Family Language Policies on Language Proficiency across Generations: A Study of Russian-Speaking Families in Germany

open access: yesLanguages
This study investigates the influence of selected aspects of family language policies (FLPs) on language proficiency across three generations of Russian-speaking families in Germany using data from a sample of 18 families.
Olia Blacher, Bernhard Brehmer
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