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Direct linkAli Yildirim; Maria Proitsaki Stjernkvist; Raili Hilden; Birgitta Fröjdendahl; Anne Dragemark Oscarson – Review of Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate summative assessment (SA) perceptions and the sources of summative assessment literacy for novice second/foreign language teachers in Sweden and Finland. Data were collected through a questionnaire (N = 27) and a semi-structured interview (N = 22) from a group of novice teachers who graduated from two…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Assessment Literacy, Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers
Download full textAltmisdort, Gonca – English Language Teaching, 2016
The main aim of this study is to analyze and discuss the similarities and the differences between English language teacher educational programs at universities in Turkey, and to identify the undergraduate students' ideas about their current curriculum. In addition to this, the study aims to compare the education of English language teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Sundqvist, Pia; Wikström, Peter; Sandlund, Erica; Nyroos, Lina – Language Testing, 2018
The present paper looks at the issue of standardization in L2 oral testing. Whereas external examiners are frequently used globally, some countries opt for test-takers' own teachers as examiners instead. In the present study, Sweden is used as a case in point, with a focus on the mandatory, high-stakes, summative, ninth-grade national test in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Standards, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Granfeldt, Jonas; Ågren, Malin – Language Testing, 2014
One core area of research in Second Language Acquisition is the identification and definition of developmental stages in different L2s. For L2 French, Bartning and Schlyter (2004) presented a model of six morphosyntactic stages of development in the shape of grammatical profiles. The model formed the basis for the computer program Direkt Profil…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, French, Language Teachers
Oscarson, Mats; Apelgren, Britt Marie – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This paper describes project work undertaken in order to map out and analyze language teachers' experiences and views of various assessment principles and procedures with a particular focus on those that promote learning and relate to grading. A questionnaire survey in a nationally representative sample of 605 language education teachers in Sweden…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Questionnaires, Grading
Oscarson, Mats – 1993
This report describes a project that is part of a national assessment program in Sweden under which the performance and attitudes of students in the 5th and 9th years of the compulsory school are being studied. The study focuses on the description of classroom activities and attained goals as well as on attitudes towards the subject, English as a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
