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Tiina Lammervo

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Comparing speaking situations in three different language tests

2013

The purpose of this study was to compare learner outcome when five similar speaking situations were offered in the speaking subtest in Finnish, Swedish and English intermediate level tests in the Finnish National Certificates language testing system. The overall aim was to investigate the tasks by comparing learner outcomes across the three tests and to seek explanations for the outcome in the learners’ selfreported demographic, language, educational and professional background.The speaking situations were selected from the NC item bank meaning that they have undergone the Item Response Theory based analyses which indicate that the tasks function well in all tests. More information was need…

Linguistics and LanguageComputer sciencebusiness.industryItem banklcsh:Finnic. Baltic-Finniclcsh:PH91-98.5second and foreign language testing spoken language validity Finnish Swedish English teststa6121computer.software_genreLanguage and LinguisticsEducationTest (assessment)lcsh:Philology. LinguisticsVariation (linguistics)lcsh:P1-1091Language assessmentItem response theoryArtificial intelligenceSituational ethicsbusinesscomputerNatural language processingCognitive psychologySpoken languageMeaning (linguistics)Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Uhingu aastaraamat
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Australian TESOL Teachers’ Cultural Perceptions of Students

2017

ABSTRACTOver the last decade, research in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) has increasingly focused on the relationship between culture and learning. Researchers such as Kumaravadivelu (2003) have been vocal in their opposition to the practice of cultural stereotyping. In the current study, Holliday’s (2005) model of Culturism was used as a theoretical basis. Six Australian TESOL teachers were interviewed to determine the nature and extent of the cultural stereotypes that they held, particularly as they pertained to specific learning-related behaviours. A qualitative analysis of the data revealed that teachers most often grouped students in terms of natio…

Linguistics and Languagestereotypiesmedia_common.quotation_subjectOpposition (politics)ta6121Language and LinguisticsEducationCultural backgroundPerceptionCultural diversityPedagogyTESOLta516critical thinkingSociologyStudent learningmedia_common060201 languages & linguisticscultural stereotyping05 social sciences050301 education06 humanities and the artsIntercultural communicationCritical thinkingintercultural communication0602 languages and literatureplagiarism0503 educationQualitative researchJournal of Language, Identity & Education
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