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Sinclair, Jeanne; Lau, Clarissa – Language and Education, 2018
It is common practice for K-12 schools to assess multilingual students' language proficiency to determine language support program placement. Because such programs can provide essential scaffolding, the policies guiding these assessments merit careful consideration. It is well accepted that quality assessments must be valid (representative of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement
Ha, Phan Le; Barnawi, Osman Z. – Language and Education, 2015
The internationalization of higher education globally continues to grow more and more towards commercialization and neoliberalism paths, despite growing concerns about the underlying consequences. Building further on our work and using Saudi Arabia as a national case, this article critically investigates how and in what ways the Saudi government's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, English (Second Language), English Only Movement
Kitchen, Margaret – Language and Education, 2014
This article is informed by van Lier's ecological approach to linguistics in considering the affordances Korean-born students perceived in using Korean or English language in an Aotearoa New Zealand high school setting. Here, I regard affordances as the students' perceptions of their languages as linguistic resources enabling them to act, or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chang, Chiungying Evelyn; Strauss, Pat – Language and Education, 2010
This paper seeks to highlight the issue of learner agency in the supervisory relationship. Although this study is confined to the perceptions of a small group of Chinese-speaking international students, this issue is not one peculiar to them. Dealing with status imbalances in this relationship is a challenge that faces all students regardless of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Difficulty Level, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Writing Processes
Whitehead, David – Language and Education, 2010
This paper describes some key characteristics of two secondary schools that were able to sustain benefits accrued from funded, externally facilitated literacy professional development intervention, during the year after facilitation had ceased. Characteristics that, together, signal a school with the potential to sustain gains in understanding…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Development