Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 4 |
Descriptor
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 4 |
| Guides - Classroom - Learner | 2 |
| Journal Articles | 2 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 4 |
| Postsecondary Education | 3 |
| Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
| China | 6 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| International English… | 2 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full text
Direct linkGuadagni, Donald; Xu, Ziming – Online Submission, 2021
This paper outlines and details historical L2 curriculum development for segments of China's State education system over a ten-year period beginning with the start of the Sino -- Foreign joint programs classes in 2011. A two-year post assessment from 2015-2017. Tracking students continuing test results for both the CET (College English Test)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Peer reviewedAryadoust, Vahid – International Journal of Testing, 2015
The present study uses a mixture Rasch model to examine latent differential item functioning in English as a foreign language listening tests. Participants (n = 250) took a listening and lexico-grammatical test and completed the metacognitive awareness listening questionnaire comprising problem solving (PS), planning and evaluation (PE), mental…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension Tests, Metacognition
Dodigovic, Marina; Ma, Chengchen; Jing, Song – TESOL International Journal, 2017
This study aims to further the understanding of first language (L1) lexical transfer within the context of L1 Chinese learners of English. Previous transfer research has often focused on a small subset of grammar errors, without examining how lexical choices, especially in collocations and multi-word units (MWU), might have been influenced by L1…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Chinese, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Guadagni, Donald – Online Submission, 2015
This instructional paper examines the lack of L2 English skills demonstrated by Chinese post-secondary education students and the results of empiric testing to determine what key language functions were missing from a student's tool box when exiting their primary education phase.The identification of these skills and ability gaps allowed for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Total Quality Management, English (Second Language)
PDF pending restorationDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1966
This is the fifteenth of 16 volumes of audiolingual classroom instruction in Mandarin Chinese. The course is designed to train native English speakers to Level 3 Foreign Service Institute proficiency in comprehension and speaking, and to Level 2 proficiency in reading and writing Mandarin. Facility in reading, writing, and translating texts…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Education, Dialogs (Language), Ideography
PDF pending restorationDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1966
This is the last of 16 volumes of audiolingual classroom instruction in Mandarin Chinese. The course is designed to train native English speakers to Level 3 Foreign Service Institute proficiency in comprehension and speaking, and to Level 2 proficiency in reading and writing Mandarin. Facility in reading, writing, and translating texts written in…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Education, Dialogs (Language), Ideography
