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Direct linkPangrazio, Luci; Godhe, Anna-Lena; Ledesma, Alejo González López – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
Many scholars across the world have studied the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to use digital media. Yet as digital texts have proliferated and evolved, there has been much conjecture over what it means to be 'digitally literate'. As literacy researchers from Australia, Sweden and Argentina we are concerned with the drive to standardise…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis, Definitions
Krell, Moritz; Mathesius, Sabrina; van Driel, Jan; Vergara, Claudia; Krüger, Dirk – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Scientific reasoning competencies are relevant science competencies and therefore the development of assessment instruments for scientific reasoning competencies has become an integral part of science education research. However, some authors have questioned the validity of the instruments available so far, since their psychometric quality has not…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Psychometrics
Dai, David Wei; Roever, Carsten – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
Because English is widely used as a lingua franca, language testers have started to consider the introduction of non-native accents into English listening tests. This study investigates how accents influence test-takers' performance, and also elicits test-takers' subjective perception of accents. Eighty adolescent L1-Mandarin test takers were…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Native Language, Mandarin Chinese
Download full textDíaz, Adriana R.; Hortiguera, Hugo; Espinoza Vera, Marcia – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2015
In the era of quality assurance (QA), close scrutiny of assessment practices has been intensified worldwide across the board. However, in the Australian context, trends in QA efforts have not reached the field of modern/foreign languages. This has largely resulted in leaving the establishment of language proficiency benchmarking up to individual…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education
Thurstun, Jennifer – 1994
This study examined the language and cultural attitudes of 45 bilingual Spanish/English adolescents of Spanish, Peruvian, and Chilean background enrolled in Saturday Spanish programs in Sydney, Australia. Each student had at least one parent whose first language was Spanish. A 60-item questionnaire designed to elicit information on factors…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adolescents, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis
Clyne, Michael; Fernandez, Sue; Grey, Felicity – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
This paper compares two sets of data from the same year, 2001--the numbers of students taking languages other than English at primary and secondary level, and census statistics for the home use of languages other than English. The data draws attention to languages that are taught principally in day schools and those taken mainly in after hours…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Maintenance, Day Schools, Foreign Countries
