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Bruen, Jennifer; Sheridan, Vera – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This paper considers the impact of geopolitical factors, and in particular the collapse of Communism and EU accession, on language education policy and practice in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). CEE is understood here as referring to the former soviet-controlled, eastern bloc counties of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary,…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Social Systems, Social Change
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Wach, Aleksandra – TESL-EJ, 2017
This study examines intercultural learning during an email collaboration project carried out as part of an EFL didactics course attended by Polish and Romanian teacher-trainees. Email entries and the results of a final questionnaire were used as sources of data that offered insight into the intercultural dimension of the participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dolean, Dacian Dorin – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) has been the subject of several studies aimed to optimize learning of a foreign language in the classroom. However, few studies provide specific curriculum-based methodological strategies to be used in the classroom in order to lower the anxiety level. In this article, two experimental classes of 8th-grade…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Pap, Emese Boksay – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This paper reports on the results of an exploratory study that employed the concurrent think-aloud method to investigate narrative text-creating strategies of multilingual Transylvanian-Hungarians in English, their third language. The study explored the participants' reliance on their different languages as they composed a story in English based…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Romance Languages, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism
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Asmali, Mehmet; Bilki, Ufuk; Duban, Carina Adriana – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
The present study attempts to offer a small-scale investigation of the willingness to communicate and its key antecedents, namely the self-perceived communication competence and the communication apprehension in Turkish and Romanian contexts. A total of 130 participants took part in this quantitative approach based study. The data suggested…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety
Filimon, David J. – 1976
As part of the current trend toward adopting modern, objective-standardized test methods in evaluating the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in the schools of the Socialist Republic of Romania, this review of pedagogical literature makes available to the English-reading audience information that has appeared in Romanian materials.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Students, Educational Testing, English (Second Language)