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Finding the Common Ground: Teachers' and Employers' Representations of English in an Assessment Context
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Child, Simon; Johnson, Martin; Mehta, Sanjana; Charles, Annabel – English in Education, 2015
There has been a long-standing debate about how 'English' can be defined. Educational policy changes have typically been driven by differing representations of the subject, and have ranged from broad 'aesthetic' definitions to more narrow 'functional' views. The present study aims to analyse areas of consensus and contention in stakeholders'…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Definitions, English, Language Attitudes
Grammar and the English National Curriculum
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Paterson, Laura Louise – Language and Education, 2010
In 1998 the regulatory body for the National Curriculum, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, acknowledged that there was "widespread uncertainty" over the grammar requirements of the English Curriculum. In this paper I argue that the QCA still has not addressed this uncertainty. I analyse the 1999 and 2011 Primary English…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Standard Spoken Usage, English Curriculum, Grammar
Morphological Awareness, Orthographic Knowledge, and Spelling Errors: Keys to Understanding Early Chinese Literacy Acquisition
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Tong, Xiuli; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Shu, Hua; Wong, Anita M-Y. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
This 1-year longitudinal study examined the extent to which morphological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and phonological awareness, along with speeded naming, uniquely explained word recognition, dictation (i.e., spelling), and reading comprehension among 171 young Hong Kong Chinese children. With age and vocabulary knowledge statistically…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Phonological Awareness
Aspects of Lexical Proficiency in Writing Summaries in a Foreign Language
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Baba, Kyoko – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
This study investigated the impact of aspects of the lexical proficiency of EFL students on their summary writing in English (L2) by controlling for the impact of a range of linguistic abilities in English and Japanese (L1). Sixty-eight Japanese undergraduate students wrote two summaries of English texts in English. Their English lexical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Multiple Regression Analysis
Measuring Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Second Language: A Psychometric Study
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Ellis, Rod – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
A problem facing investigations of implicit and explicit learning is the lack of valid measures of second language implicit and explicit knowledge. This paper attempts to establish operational definitions of these two constructs and reports a psychometric study of a battery of tests designed to provide relatively independent measures of them.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Proceedings of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference Held Jointly with the 25th PME-NA Conference (Honolulu, Hawaii, July 13-18, 2003). Volume 4
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Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) Improving Decimal Number Conception by Transfer from Fractions to Decimals (Irita Peled and Juhaina Awawdy Shahbari); (2) The Development of Student Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics during…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Metalinguistics