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50 Years of ERIC
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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Mapping Language Teachers' Conceptions of Student Assessment Procedures in Relation to Grading: A Two-Stage Empirical Inquiry
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Oscarson, Mats; Apelgren, Britt Marie – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This paper describes project work undertaken in order to map out and analyze language teachers' experiences and views of various assessment principles and procedures with a particular focus on those that promote learning and relate to grading. A questionnaire survey in a nationally representative sample of 605 language education teachers in Sweden…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Questionnaires, Grading
Young Learners and Multilingualism: A Study of Learner Attitudes before and after the Introduction of a Second Foreign Language to the Curriculum
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Henry, Alastair; Apelgren, Britt Marie – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
Whilst adults in Sweden place great importance on communicative competence in English, interest in learning other FLs and support for multilingualism are low. This is mirrored in the attitudes of pupils in compulsory and post-compulsory education, where English is a popular subject but opt-out and drop-out rates for FLs are high. Whilst…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Language Attitudes