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An investigation into the oral English language proficiency gain of pupils taught by native English-speaking teachers in Hong Kong secondary schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Purpose This study examines the extent to which Native English-speaking Teachers (NETs) have an impact on the oral English language proficiency gain of pupils taught in secondary schools in Hong Kong i.e. the so-called 'NET effect'. The principal aim was
Gray, Jeremy
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Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

POWER RELATIONS OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH TEACHERS AND THEIR STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM

open access: yesJurnal Penelitian Humaniora, 2015
The current study deals with the Power Relations between non-native English teachers and their students in the classroom. The objectives of the study is to describe the Power Relations between non-native English teachers and their students in the ...
Sudar Sudar
doaj  

Students’ perception of the advantages and disadvantages of learning English for biology with native and non-native English-speaking teachers

open access: yesHo Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences, 2018
English for Biology is a course in the bachelor training program of Biology Teacher Education at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. A research on 126 students from Department of Biology of this University on the advantages and disadvantages of ...
Pham Cu Thien   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

An investigation of Japanese university students' attitudes towards English

open access: yes, 2011
As a global language, English has spread to the extent that non-native speakers now outnumber native speakers. In the last few decades, a body of research literature has emerged demonstrating the decreasing global relevance of native English speakers ...
Galloway, Nicola
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Native and Non-Native English Language Teachers

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2014
The English language teaching industry in East and Southeast Asia subscribes to an assumption that native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) are the gold standard of spoken and written language, whereas non-native English-speaking teachers (non-NESTs) are
Ian Walkinshaw, Duongthi Hoang Oanh
doaj   +1 more source

Teachers' and student teachers' reflections on teaching english a globalized world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2015.Abstract : The globalization process has favored the ...
Berrêdo, Gustavo Ribeiro de Carvalho
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning English as a foreign language in a non-native country and speaking in the UK: Lived experience of Nepalese students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Education and awarded by Brunel University.English language has been applied as a general subject at the tertiary level education in all the faculties of Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal and treated ...
Shrestha, Rup Kumar
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