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Developing a web-based system to create, deliver and assess language proficiency within the PAULEX Universitas Project

2011

This study aims to examine the feasibility of a number of technical solutions implemented in a web-based system designed for the creation and management of online language exams within PAULEX Universitas, a project for the development of an online platform to design, deliver and assess the foreign language exam within the Spanish national University Entrance Examination. The paper provides an overview of the context and a discussion of current changes in Spanish ministerial policies, followed by a description of the PAULEX testing platform and a discussion on the technological solutions adopted. Lastly, the paper reflects upon a quantitative analysis derived from a pilot experience conducte…

Multimediabusiness.industryComputer scienceLlengües modernesForeign languageOnline platformContext (language use)Assessmentcomputer.software_genreFILOLOGIA INGLESAEnglish examEngineering managementassessment ;English second languageComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONWeb applicationGeneral Materials ScienceThe InternetLanguage proficiencyonline platformbusinesscomputerUniversity Entrance ExaminationProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Used and interaction in technological platforms of open source to improve the linguistic competence in computer engineers

2017

The higher education through virtual environment is students centered oriented to the interactive learning, in situations to be closer to the real world; for that reason, teachers must have new communicative competences, nonverbal and with a learning innovative approach which allows to guide their students in the complex process of acquiring knowledge even more in a foreign language. In the same context, the use of technologic platforms of open code is becoming in the best way to give solutions which meet the actual needs of the process of acquiring a second language; on this basis, the present research is focused in the analysis and use of Open Source tools as alternative of complementary …

Multimediabusiness.industryProcess (engineering)Emerging technologiesComputer scienceTechnical writing05 social sciencesForeign languageInformation technology020207 software engineeringContext (language use)02 engineering and technologycomputer.software_genreLinguistic competenceInteractive Learning0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesbusinesscomputer050107 human factors2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
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Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, N. 4 

2014

National identity -- language centredTranslationUniversal GrammarPragmaticsNon-native EnglishPhonostylistic featureUser’s guideHeteroglossiaLanguage InstinctCorpusGenerative GrammarEnglish as a foreign languageInformational style of intonationGrammatical errorsEnglish Latvian dictionariesSymbolic capitalMetaphor:HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Languages and linguistics::Other Germanic languages::English language [Research Subject Categories]English-Language TeachingApplied linguisticsPierre Bourdieu
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Is blended best for the Net Generation? : a review of the changing landscape of foreign language learning in higher education

2008

Net Generationhigher educationopiskeluforeign language learningaffinity spaceskieletblended learningcommunities of practice
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The World of Anglo-Saxon Learning

2007

D uring the Anglo-Saxon period, English schools were among the finest in Europe. From English schools came the great masters whose writings instructed generations, centuries even, of Insular and continental students alike: one has only to think of the works of Aldhelm, Bede and Alcuin, which were copied and studied intensively up to the twelfth century and beyond. This achievement is all the more remarkable when one considers that the Anglo-Saxons were among the first peoples in Europe who were obliged to learn Latin as a foreign language if Christianity - a religion of the book par excellence - was to flourish. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, English schools benefited from the instructi…

NinthtriviumHistoryArchbishopistruzionemedia_common.quotation_subjectForeign languagequadriviumsapienzaAnglo-SaxonChristianityEleventhlanguage.human_languagemedioevoExcellencespcialized skillanglosassonelanguageOld SaxonLearningClassicsPeriod (music)media_common
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Developing and using tasks for the assessment of speaking

2019

This article provides an overview of the development and use of tasks for the assessment of speaking. It first addresses the key role of the assessment of the skill of speaking within language assessment in general and in the context of teaching and learning foreign languages. Then, it discusses how social changes and research have reshaped the way speaking is defined and operationalized, and focuses on how speaking can be assessed more validly and reliably today. The central role of tasks is also discussed, together with the importance of taking into consideration the implications and impact of different task characteristics. Some recommendations for the development of useful and meaningfu…

OperationalizationlanguageProcess (engineering)assessmentSocial changeForeign languageContext (language use)General MedicinespeakingtestingArticleTask (project management)Language assessmentMathematics educationtasksPsychologyLanguage Testing Assessment Speaking TasksApples - Journal of Applied Language Studies
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“No, I’m Not Reading”: How Two Language Learners Enact Their Investments by Crossing and Blurring the Boundaries of Literacy and Orality

2019

This chapter makes an argument for bridging the gap between Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Literacy Studies from the perspective of so-called transmodalities, i.e. ways of using language that merge and blur the modalities of writing, speaking, listening, and reading. This argument is based on data from a qualitative case study that describes the transmodal practices of two trilingual high school students in a German classroom in the Midwestern US. More precisely, the study investigated how the high school students Jana and Karina (both pseudonyms), users of English, Latvian, and German, engaged in activities that mixed and blurred oral and literacy modalities in their German classroo…

Oralitymedia_common.quotation_subjectForeign languageLatvianLanguage acquisitionSecond-language acquisitionlanguage.human_languageLiteracyGermanComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONMathematics educationlanguageActive listeningSociologymedia_common
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Pašvadītas mācīšanās stratēģijas lasītprasmes uzlabošanai angļu valodas stundās 4.klasē

2021

Maģistra darbā tiek pētīta ekstensīvās lasīšanas ietekme uz skolēnu spēju veikt lasīšanas uzdevumus. Teorētiskajā daļā tiek izklāstīts lasīšanas jēdziens; darbā apskatītas pamatskolas skolēnu problēmas lasīšanā, kā arī ekstensīvās lasīšanas loma, tekstu izlases kritēriji un efektīvas lasīšanas stratēģijas. Šī darba mērķis ir palīdzēt vidējā zināšanu līmeņa skolēniem apgūt lasīšanas stratēģijas. Darba praktiskajā daļā sniegts pārskats par pilotpētījumu: eksperimentālā grupa lasīja ekstensīvi un pielietoja praksē lasīšanas stratēģijas. Darba izpētes metode ir eksperiments; datu vākšanas instrumenti ir dalībnieku novērošana, vajadzību anketu analīze, lasīšanas pirmseksperimenta tests un pēceks…

Pedagoģijaekstensīvā lasīšanalasīšana svešvalodāefektīvās lasīšanas stratēģijasreading in a foreign languageextensive reading
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Ārtelpas video aktivitātes kā iekļaujošs mācību līdzeklis svešvalodu apguvē pusaudžiem

2015

Maģistra darbā “Ārtelpas video aktivitātes kā iekļaujošs mācību līdzeklis svešvalodu apguvē pusaudžiem” tiek pētīta svešvalodas apguves vēsture un patreizējās tendences, kā arī ārtelpas aktivitātes kā svešvalodas apguvi veicinošs mācību līdzeklis nodarbībās pusaudžiem. Datu ieguvei par ārtelpas aktivitāšu laikā iegūtajiem rezultātiem pētījumā tiek izmantots formatīvais skolotāja vērtējums un skolēna pašvērtējums. Pētījuma mērķis ir atklāt saistības starp ārtelpas video aktivitāšu sniegtajiem svešvalodas apguves rezultātiem un skolēnu pašvērtējumu un skolotāja vērtējumu. Datu analīze parāda, ka skolēnu un skolotāju vērtējumos pastāv konsekvence. Tiek pierādīts, ka ārtelpas video aktivitātes …

Pedagoģijaformative assessmentforeign language learningadolescentsoutdoor education
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Pašvadītas mācīšanās “Es protu apgalvojumi” skolēnu vispārējai angļu valodas mācību sasniegumu uzlabošanai 4. klasē

2022

Diplomdarbs tika izstrādāts, lai padziļinātu izpratni par “Es protu apgalvojumu” izmantošanu kā pašvadītu mācīšanās prasmju novērtēšanas instrumenta faktisko pielietojumu un lai noteiktu, vai tas palīdz uzlabot skolēnu angļu valodas sasniegumus. Diplomdarba mērķis bija izpētīt, kā pašvadītas mācīšanās “Es protu apgalvojumus” var izmantot angļu valodas stundās, lai uzlabotu skolēnu angļu valodas sniegumu 4. klasē. Par pētījuma metodi tika izvēlēts gadījuma pētījums. Par pētījuma bāzi tika izvēlēti 19 Ērgļu vidusskolas 4. klases skolēni vecumā no 9 līdz 10 gadiem Dati tika vākti, izmantojot stundu novērošanas protokolus, skolotāju viedokļa noskaidrošanai tika izmantota daļēji strukturēta inte…

Pedagoģijaself-regulated learning skillsforeign language learningyoung foreign language learners“Can-Do Statements”
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