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Book Synopsis The Influence of the Foreign Service Institute on US Language Education by : Theresa Ulrich
Download or read book The Influence of the Foreign Service Institute on US Language Education written by Theresa Ulrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close analysis of primary source textual documents produced by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) between 1947 and 1968, this unique text reveals the undocumented influence of the FSI on K-12 language instruction and assessment in the United States. By investigating the historical development of the FSI and its attitudes and practices around language learning and bilingualism, this text provides in-depth insight into the changing value of bilingualism in the US, and highlights how the FSI’s practices around language instruction and assessment continue to influence language instruction in American public schools. By mapping the development and integration of language proficiency assessments which strongly resemble those used by the FSI, historical analysis uncovers key political and economic motivations for increased promotion of language instruction in the US education system. Providing insights into issues of language instruction and assessment in public education that persist today, this book will be particularly useful to researchers and students interested in how policy formation has shaped language instruction and assessment in US public schools.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309675480 Total Pages :113 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (96 download)
Book Synopsis A Principled Approach to Language Assessment by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book A Principled Approach to Language Assessment written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is formally represented around the world by approximately 14,000 Foreign Service officers and other personnel in the U.S. Department of State. Roughly one-third of them are required to be proficient in the local languages of the countries to which they are posted. To achieve this language proficiency for its staff, the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) provides intensive language instruction and assesses the proficiency of personnel before they are posted to a foreign country. The requirement for language proficiency is established in law and is incorporated in personnel decisions related to job placement, promotion, retention, and pay. A Principled Approach to Language Assessment: Considerations for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute evaluates the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency that FSI could potentially use. This report considers the key assessment approaches in the research literature that are appropriate for language testing, including, but not limited to, assessments that use task-based or performance-based approaches, adaptive online test administration, and portfolios.
Book Synopsis International Education and Foreign Languages by : National Research Council
Download or read book International Education and Foreign Languages written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Education and Foreign Languages reviews the Department of Education's Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, which provide higher education funding for international education and foreign language programs. This book offers a timely look at issues that are increasingly important in an interconnected world. It discusses the effect of the nation's lack of expertise in foreign languages and cultural knowledge on national security and global competitiveness and it describes the challenges faced by the U.S. educational system and the federal government in trying to address those needs. The book also examines the federal government's recent proposal to create a new National Security Language Initiative, the role of the Department of Education, and current efforts to hold higher education programs accountable. This book provides information and recommendations that can help universities, educators, and policy makers establish a system of foreign language and international education that is ready to respond to new and unanticipated challenges around the world.
Book Synopsis Pop Culture in Language Education by : Valentin Werner
Download or read book Pop Culture in Language Education written by Valentin Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop Culture in Language Education provides comprehensive insight on how studies of pop culture can inform language teaching and learning. The volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of empirically informed, cutting-edge research that tackles both theoretical concerns and practical implications. The book focuses on how a diverse array of pop culture artifacts such as pop and rap music, movies and TV series, comics and cartoons, fan fiction, and video games can be exploited for the development of language skills. It establishes the study of pop culture and its language as a serious subfield within language education and applied linguistics and explores how studies of pop culture, its language, and its non-linguistic affordances can inform language education at various levels of proficiency and with various learner populations. Presenting a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research approaches including case studies on how pop culture has been used successfully in language education in and beyond the classroom, this book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and students in the field of language education, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, as well as for language teachers and materials developers.
Book Synopsis Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education by : Justin Quinn
Download or read book Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education written by Justin Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglophone Literature in Second Language Teacher Education proposes new ways that literature, and more generally culture, can be used to educate future teachers of English as a second language. Arguing that the way literature is used in language teacher education can be transformed, the book foregrounds transnational approaches and shows how these can be applied in literature and cultural instruction to encourage intercultural awareness in future language educators. It draws on theoretical discussions from literary and cultural studies as well as applied linguistics and is an example how these cross-discipline conversations can take place, and thus help make Second-language teacher education (SLTE) programs more responsive to the challenges faced by future English-language teachers. Written in the idiom of literary scholarship, the book uses ideas of intercultural studies that have gained widespread support at research level, yet have not affected literature–cultural curricula in SLTE. As the first interdisciplinary study to suggest how SLTE programs can respond with curricula, this book will be of great interest for academics, scholars and post graduate students in the fields of applied linguistics, L2 and foreign language education, teacher education and post-graduate TESOL. It has universal appeal, addressing teaching faculty in any third-level institution that prepares language teachers and includes literary studies in their curriculum, as well as administrators in such organizations.
Book Synopsis Critical Literacy with Adolescent English Language Learners by : Jennifer Alford
Download or read book Critical Literacy with Adolescent English Language Learners written by Jennifer Alford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines critical literacy within language and literacy learning, with a particular focus on English as an Additional Language learners in schools who traditionally are not given the same exposure to critical literacy as native-English speakers. An important and innovative addition to extant literature, this book explains how English language teachers understand critical literacy and enact it in classrooms with adolescent English language learners from highly diverse language backgrounds. This book brings together the study of two intersecting phenomena: how critical literacy is constructed in English language education policy for adolescent English language learners internationally and how critical literacy is understood and enacted by teachers amid the so-called ‘literacy crisis’ in neoliberal eduscapes. The work traces the ways critical literacy has been represented in English language education policy for adolescents in five contexts: Australia, England, Sweden, Canada and the United States. Drawing on case study research, it provides a comparative analysis of how policy in these countries constructs critical literacy, and how this then positions critical engagement as a focus for teachers of English language learners. Empirically based and accessibly written, this timely book will be of interest to a wide range of academics in the fields of adolescent literacy education, English language learning and teaching, education policy analysis, and critical discourse studies. It will also appeal to teachers, post-graduate students and language education policy makers.
Book Synopsis Developing Notetaking Skills in a Second Language by : Joseph Siegel
Download or read book Developing Notetaking Skills in a Second Language written by Joseph Siegel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Notetaking Skills in a Second Language combines theoretical perspectives with an analysis of empirical classroom studies and offers a detailed discussion that increases pedagogical awareness of factors impacting second language (L2) notetaking performance and instruction. Based on original research and including descriptions of classroom practices and samples of student work, the book provides insights on a range of topics relevant to L2 notetaking. The book emphasizes the challenges that many students from different international backgrounds face when taking notes in an L2 and outlines a five-stage pedagogic cycle for notetaking that can be applied to any listening text. It also explores the dialogic potential of notes for stimulating class discussion about notetaking strategies. This book will be of great interest for teachers, academics, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of applied linguistics, L2 and foreign language education. It will also be a useful resource for those in charge of teacher education and postgraduate TESOL, L1, and L2 listening researchers and psycholinguists.
Book Synopsis Understanding the Oral and Written Translanguaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals by : Chaehyun Lee
Download or read book Understanding the Oral and Written Translanguaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals written by Chaehyun Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing qualitative research undertaken with elementary-grade children in a Korean heritage language school in the U.S., this text provides unique insight into the translanguaging practices and preferences of young, emergent bilinguals in a minority language group. Understanding the Oral and Written Translanguaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals examines the role of sociocultural influences on emergent bilinguals’ language use and development. Particular attention is paid to the role of immigrant parental involvement and engagement in their bilingual children’s language learning and academic performance. Presenting data from classroom audio-recordings, writing, and drawing samples, as well as semi-structured interviews with children and parents, the book identifies important implications for the education of emergent bilinguals to better support their overall language and literacy development. This text will primarily be of interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars with an interest in bilingual education, biliteracy, and early literacy development more broadly. Those interested in applied linguistics, the Korean language, and multicultural education will also benefit from this volume.
Book Synopsis The National Interest and Foreign Languages by : William Riley Parker
Download or read book The National Interest and Foreign Languages written by William Riley Parker and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalog and General Information, Foreign Service Institute, School of Foreign Affairs, School of Languages by : Foreign Service Institute (U.S.)
Download or read book Catalog and General Information, Foreign Service Institute, School of Foreign Affairs, School of Languages written by Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Extroversion/introversion in Foreign Language Learning by : Natsumi Wakamoto
Download or read book Extroversion/introversion in Foreign Language Learning written by Natsumi Wakamoto and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how learners' personalities influence foreign language learning in Japan. In particular, this volume investigates three main research questions: What are the learning strategies generally employed by Japanese college students? What are the characteristic learning strategies of extroverts and introverts? Do extroversion and introversion have an impact on English listening proficiency? In the analysis carried out in the volume, both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used. As regards the former, various types of questionnaires have been employed, measuring strategy use, personality characteristics, and English proficiency. As regards the latter, the strategies students use both in the classroom and in a tutorial learning situation have been observed, integrated with interviews with the students themselves regarding their use of learning strategies. In the last part of the book, the pedagogical implications of this study are examined with suggestions for both teachers and learners.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :100 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Improvement in Standards of Language Proficiency and in Recruiting for the Foreign Service by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs
Download or read book Improvement in Standards of Language Proficiency and in Recruiting for the Foreign Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Public Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (85) S. 3552, (86) S. 1243.
Book Synopsis L2 Writing Beyond English by : Nur Yiğitoğlu Aptoula
Download or read book L2 Writing Beyond English written by Nur Yiğitoğlu Aptoula and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of what we know about writing in a second or foreign language (L2) is based on conclusions drawn from research on L2 writing in English. However, a significant quantity of L2 writing and writing instruction takes place in languages other than English and so there is a need for studies that look beyond English. The chapters in this book focus on languages other than English and investigate curricular issues, multiple languages in contact/conflict in L2 writing instruction and student attitudes toward pedagogical practices. The collection as a whole makes a valuable contribution to the study of L2 writing, and it will also prove an essential resource for instructors of second and foreign language writing.
Book Synopsis National Defense Language Development Research and Studies by : United States. Office of Education
Download or read book National Defense Language Development Research and Studies written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :142 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Hearings on Foreign Language and International Studies by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education
Download or read book Hearings on Foreign Language and International Studies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conference on the Role of Foreign Languages in American Schools, January 15 and 16, 1953 by : United States. Education Office
Download or read book Conference on the Role of Foreign Languages in American Schools, January 15 and 16, 1953 written by United States. Education Office and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art and Science of Language Teaching by : Lara Bryfonski
Download or read book The Art and Science of Language Teaching written by Lara Bryfonski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for teachers of all levels and languages, this book seeks to inform their practices with cutting-edge language teaching research.
