World Language Challenge
| Author | : Lori Polydoros |
| Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1450965466 |
World Language Challenge
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Challenges in Language Testing Around the World
| Author | : Betty Lanteigne |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 553 |
| Release | : 2021-02-17 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9813342323 |
This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world. It investigates problematic practices in language testing which are relevant to language test users such as language program directors, testing centers, and language teachers, as well as teachers-in-training in Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programs. These issues involve aspects of language testing such as test development, test administration, scoring, and interpretation/use of test results. Chapters in this volume discuss insights about language testing policy, testing world languages, developing program-level language tests and tests of specific language skills, and language assessment literacy. In addition, this book identifies two needs in language testing for further examination: the need for collaboration between language test developers, language test users, and language users, and the need to base language tests on real-world language use.
Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World
| Author | : Mirosław Pawlak |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3319669753 |
This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with an eye to enhancing the effectiveness of the processes of language teaching and learning. In Part One, emphasis is placed on challenges that second language education has to face, both those more general, dealing with language policy issues, and those more specific, concerned with instructional options in the language classroom. Part Two focuses on challenges involved in researching the processes of teaching and learning in the second and foreign languages classroom, both with respect to research methodology and efforts to tap some variables impinging upon the effects of instruction. Finally, Part Three is devoted to challenges involved in second and foreign language teacher education, the quality of which to a large extent determines the outcomes of second language education in any educational context.
High Challenge, Low Threat
| Author | : Mary Myatt |
| Publisher | : John Catt Educational |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781909717862 |
High Challenge, Low Threat is Mary Myatt's smart and thoughtful exploration of all the things that wise leaders do. Informed through thousands of conversations over a 20-year period in education, Mary shows the lessons that school management teams can learn from leaders in a wide range of other sectors and points to the conditions which these leaders create to allow colleagues to engage with difficult issues enthusiastically and wholeheartedly. This book makes the case that any leadership role is concerned primarily with the relationships between individuals. It is the quality of these, whatever the size of the organisation, which make the difference between organisations which thrive, and those which stagnate. This is not to argue for soft, easy and comfortable options. Instead it considers how top leaders manage to walk the line between the impossible and the possible, between the undoable and the doable, and to create conditions for productive work which transcend the difficulties which come towards us every day. Instead of dodging them, they embrace them. And by navigating high challenge, low threat, they show how others how to do the same.
English Language Education in a Global World
| Author | : Lap Tuen Wong |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
| ISBN | : 9781634835206 |
With English becoming the world's foremost lingua franca, the pressure to improve English language education (ELE) has been steadily increasing. Consequently, the nature of ELE has changed drastically in the last decade. This has not only brought about a number of changes in the way English is taught and learnt, but it has also led to various innovative practices around the world. As a result, this edited book aims to shed light on the new theoretical and methodological developments in the field of ELE as well as the major issues and difficulties faced by practitioners in different parts of the globe. One very important variable that the book takes into account is the role that English already plays in a particular society since this may affect the views that teachers and students hold of the language. This in turn can significantly influence the way English is taught and learnt in given political, economic and socio-cultural settings. The purpose of this book is therefore to provide a comprehensive overview of the pedagogical methods, policies and problems that underlie English language education in ten different regions across the world, including: the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, Japan, China and Hong Kong. In doing so, the different chapters in the book emphasize the importance of responding to linguistic and other forms of diversity in order to develop English language education in a globalized world. This book will be useful for teachers and students of English language, for English language curriculum and materials developers, and for those involved in educational policy-making and language acquisition research. Written by experts in the field, the range of content covered in the book's chapters will also help policy-makers, researchers and practitioners develop effective English language education practices and policies, and propose solutions to emerging issues in English language teaching and learning in different environments around the world. The newly-developed arguments and concerns pertaining to English language education will serve as future reference for professionals interested in this area of expertise.
5-day Spanish Language Challenge
| Author | : Challenge Self |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 86 |
| Release | : 2017-01-31 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781545475775 |
Take Your "5-Day Spanish Language Challenge" Learn Spanish In 5 Days Why are you reading this? Because: - You want to speak the second most popular language in the world. - You want to be able to visit the different Spanish-speaking countries. - You want to know how to better communicate with Spanish speakers. - You want to have the chance to further advance your career in the USA. - You want to have the easiest and fastest way to study Spanish for beginners. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the United States and in many countries. In fact, it has the second largest number of speakers on this planet-right after Chinese. Now many folks have taken some kind of foreign language when they are in school, but if you didn't get the opportunity to study Spanish-it's not too late. There are many advantages that you will find to learning another language, especially one that is as widely spoken as Spanish: Travel - If you travel to a Spanish-speaking country, having a rudimentary idea of the language will help you get around and get along with those who live there. You will know where to go and look less like a tourist. When you are lost or need information, you can ask anyone in their own language and understand them. Business - If you have a business, knowing how to speak multiple languages can increase your bottom line. Sometimes you will have a client who only speaks Spanish, and knowing Spanish will help you be able to communicate and connect with them. Job Opportunity - When you are looking for a job, being bilingual can help you tremendously with standing out and having a better chance of being hired. It shows potential employers that extra value you have to offer for their expansible customer base. So, if you are looking for a simple way to learn Spanish in only a few days, our "5-Day Spanish Language Challenge" will set you on your path to success. It will give you the essential information about many things in the Spanish language. You'll learn about the alphabet, phonetics, verbs, and much more. Best of all, it's very easy to understand and even shows you how to use Spanish in real life. When you want to speak Spanish fast, there is no better place to start than the "5-Day Spanish Language Challenge."
Stagnancy Issues and Change Initiatives for Global Education in the Digital Age
| Author | : Neimann, Theresa |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2020-09-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1799849945 |
At this juncture in the history and development of education in the digital age, constituents of education systems across the globe are challenged with revising or rediscovering the purpose of educational institutions within societies. Institutions need to retool to include digital games-based and problem-based learning, and education itself must adapt to serve the needs of a diverse student population. Stagnancy Issues and Change Initiatives for Global Education in the Digital Age is a cutting-edge research publication that explores the complex discourse of trends, shifts, and changes happening in the field of education and to understand the implications for teaching, learning, and professional development. The book helps educators understand how to make their pedagogy and andragogy relevant in the framework of constant technological shifts and changes in order to help students thrive in a global economy. Featuring a wide range of topics such as gamification, pedagogy, and intercultural learning, this book is ideal for curriculum designers, academicians, education professionals, researchers, policymakers, and students.
Language Learning in Anglophone Countries
| Author | : Ursula Lanvers |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 530 |
| Release | : 2021-01-07 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3030566544 |
This edited book focuses on the state of language learning in Anglophone countries and brings together international research from a wide range of educational settings. Taking a contextual perspective on the language learning crisis currently facing Anglophone countries, the authors examine systemic challenges, real-world practices, and broader cultural trends that have an impact on the uptake of modern foreign languages in different Anglophone settings. This book will be of interest to scholars working in applied linguistics and language education, particularly those with a focus on educational policy and Global English.
Challenges for Language Education and Policy
| Author | : Bernard Spolsky |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2014-09-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1134658656 |
Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, this volume focuses on language users, the ‘people.’ Making creative connections between existing scholarship in language policy and contemporary theory and research in other social sciences, authors from around the world offer new critical perspectives for analyzing language phenomena and language theories, suggesting new meeting points among language users and language policy makers, norms, and traditions in diverse cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. Identifying and expanding on previously neglected aspects of language studies, the book is inspired by the work of Elana Shohamy, whose critical view and innovative work on a broad spectrum of key topics in applied linguistics has influenced many scholars in the field to think “out of the box” and to reconsider some basic commonly held understandings, specifically with regard to the impact of language and languaging on individual language users rather than on the masses.
Creative Multilingualism
| Author | : Katrin Maria Kohl |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Multilingualism is integral to the human condition. Hinging on the concept of Creative Multilingualism - the idea that language diversity and creativity are mutually enriching - this timely and thought provoking volume shows how the concept provides a matrix for experimentation with ideas, approaches and methods. The book presents four years of joint research on multilingualism across disciplines, from the humanities through to the social and natural sciences. It is structured as a manifesto, comprising ten major statements which are unpacked through various case studies across ten chapters. They encompass areas including the rich relationship between language diversity and diversity of identity, thought and expression; the interaction between language diversity and biodiversity; the 'prismatic' unfolding of meaning in translation; the benefits of linguistic creativity in a classroom-seting; and the ingenuity underpinning 'conlangs' ('constructed languages') designed to give imagined peoples a distinctive medium capable of expressing their cultural identity. This book is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world. Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange. It will be a valuable resource for academics, educators, policy makers and parents of bilingual or multilingual children. Its accessible style also speaks to general readers interested in the role of language diversity in our everyday lives, and the untapped creative potential of multilingualism. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com.
