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50 Years of ERIC
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How Do Teachers Observe and Evaluate Elementary School Students' Foreign Language Performance? A Case Study from South Korea
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Butler, Yuko Goto – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
This study investigates how teachers observe and assess elementary school students' foreign language performance in class and how such assessments vary among teachers. Twenty-six elementary school teachers and 23 English teachers at secondary schools in South Korea watched videotapes of 6th-grade students' group activities in English and were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Group Activities, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
How Are Nonnative-English-Speaking Teachers Perceived by Young Learners?
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Butler, Yuko Goto – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2007
The current study examined the effects of Korean elementary school teachers' accents on their students' listening comprehension. It also examined students' attitudes toward teachers with American-accented English (a native speaker model) and Korean-accented English (a nonnative speaker model). A matched-guised technique was used. A Korean American…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Student Attitudes, Grade 6, Language Teachers