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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Student Teachers Developing a Critical Understanding of Formative Assessment in the Modern Foreign Languages Classroom on an Initial Teacher Education Course
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Jones, Jane – Language Learning Journal, 2014
With evidence that formative assessment supports pupils' learning, it follows that that there is a need to develop student teachers' assessment competence. However, in some teacher education programmes, learning about pupil assessment is often relegated to a late stage. This can lead to student teachers' perceptions of assessment as…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Formative Evaluation, Focus Groups, Teaching Methods
The Role of Assessment for Learning in the Management of Primary to Secondary Transition: Implications for Language Teachers
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Jones, Jane – Language Learning Journal, 2010
Among the transitions during a pupil's school career, the transfer from primary to secondary school arguably has the most impact. Far from being linear, this transition is a kind of "pupil pilgrim's progress"; a journey with orientations, stops and reorientations, checking and refining skills that the pupils bring with them from primary to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Formative Assessment and the Learning and Teaching of MFL: Sharing the Language Learning Road Map with the Learners
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Black, Paul; Jones, Jane – Language Learning Journal, 2006
Whilst formative assessment is now well established as a valuable practice in improving the involvement and attainment of pupils, its specific implementation in particular school subjects has received little attention. This paper sets out to discuss the development of formative assessment practices in the learning of languages. A general…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Second Language Instruction
The Provision of Foreign Language Learning for Pupils at Key Stage 2
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Driscoll, Patricia; Jones, Jane; Macrory, Gee – Language Learning Journal, 2004
Following the publication of the National Languages Strategy "Languages for All: Languages for life" (2002), the DfES commissioned research in the 2002-2003 academic year to investigate the extent and nature of the teaching of modern foreign languages at key stage 2 (KS2) in England. Three further research aims related to the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction