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The purpose of this study was to examine whether English language learners (ELLs) would increase their vocabulary scores in the areas of word recognition, word meaning, and word application when iPads were used during vocabulary instruction. Five third-grade ELLs, at risk of being diagnosed as having learning disabilities, participated in the study. All students demonstrated low test scores in learning vocabulary words during the baseline. During the intervention, 36 vocabulary words selected from the third-grade’s Dolch word list were taught and practiced using the iPad application Learning Touch, First Sight Words Pro. All students were assessed and their vocabulary scores increased in the areas of word recognition, word meaning, and word application. Using the iPad and iPad app appears to provide a potential avenue for ELLs in learning English vocabulary words. 相似文献
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王振英 《浙江教育学院学报》2006,(5):92-97
通过对我国重点矿业院校非英语专业大学生英语词汇量与语言各项技能水平的相关研究，发现学生四级阶段词汇量平均达到4192个；词汇量与口语、听力、阅读理解、词汇结构、完型填空、写作及四级成绩之间在a=0．01水平下线性关系均显著；不同语言综合能力的学习者，其词汇量状况存在显著差异；不同词汇量的学习者，其语言综合能力也存在显著差异。 相似文献
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钟毅 《重庆第二师范学院学报》2012,25(1):147-150,162
词汇是语言学习的基础,是听力能力提高的关键。本文通过对英语专业学生的词汇与听力测试成绩的相关性进行研究,发现英语专业学生词汇能力与听力能力之间确实存在显著的正相关,本文通过对一例英语专业大二学生的听力成绩分析,对英语专业院校重视词汇在听力教学中的地位予以肯定,同时也对当前听力教学和词汇教学的结合提出几点建议。 相似文献
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ABSTRACTPast research into the relationship between English proficiency test (EPT) scores and score profiles, such as the IELTS and the TOEFL, has shown that there is not always a clear relationship between those scores and students’ subsequent academic achievement. Information about students’ academic self-concept (ASC) may provide additional information that helps predict future academic success. Research has consistently shown a positive relationship between students’ ASC and subsequent academic achievement and educational attainment in both school and higher education settings. The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between the academic performance of international students and their language proficiency and academic self-concept as well as other characteristics related to academic success. The study focused on first year international students in undergraduate business programs at an English-medium university in Canada. The following information was collected about the student participants: grades in degree program courses, annual GPA, and EPT scores (including subscores). In addition, students completed an academic self-concept scale. To obtain additional information about success in first-year business courses, instructors in two required courses were interviewed about the academic and language requirements in their courses and the profile of successful students. Correlations between the students’ course grades, GPA, EPT scores, and ASC score were calculated. The instructor interviews were analyzed using a content analysis procedure. The findings from all data sources were triangulated and show that language ability, ASC, and other factors impact academic success during the first year in a business program. The implications of these findings are discussed. 相似文献
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States use standards‐based English language proficiency (ELP) assessments to inform relatively high‐stakes decisions for English learner (EL) students. Results from these assessments are one of the primary criteria used to determine EL students’ level of ELP and readiness for reclassification. The results are also used to evaluate the effectiveness of and funding allocation to district or school programs that serve EL students. In an effort to provide empirical validity evidence for such important uses of ELP assessments, this study focused on examining the constructs of ELP assessments as a fundamental validity issue. Particularly, the study examined the types of language proficiency measured in three sample states’ ELP assessments and the relationship between each type of language proficiency and content assessment performance. The results revealed notable variation in the presence of academic and social language in the three ELP assessments. A series of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analyses also revealed varied relationships among social language proficiency, academic language proficiency, and content assessment performance. The findings highlight the importance of examining the constructs of ELP assessments for making appropriate interpretations and decisions based on the assessment scores for EL students. Implications for policy and practice are discussed. 相似文献
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本文对非英语专业大学生英语高频词汇习得情况进行了描述和分析。结果显示,到大学二年级上半期,在总体为3000个的高频词汇中,大二学生的高频词汇量约1966个。不同英语综合能力水平的学生、男女生、来自不同区域学生的高频词汇水平差异非常显著。高频词汇水平与学生入学英语水平、对高频词汇的重视程度、学习单词的时间、记忆力以及对教材难易度的评价有不同程度上的相关。 相似文献
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王睿 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2012,(2):323-323
阅读理解是一门综合考查学生英语词汇、语法、速度和准确度同时兼顾学生对于英式思维和文化的理解和掌握度的语言考试。学生面对平时的英语考试及大学教育所要求的全国英语四六级考试,必须加强自身英语阅读理解的能力。 相似文献
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Helen Joy Benzie 《高等教育研究与发展》2010,29(4):447-459
The current concern about low levels of English proficiency among international students who graduate from degree courses – that students’ English language skills are not being developed during their higher education experience – reflects negatively on the quality of Australian higher education and its graduates. More careful selection of students and increased use of English language testing are among the solutions put forward. These debates over English language proficiency tend to construct English language as a skill that can be applied in any context and ‘native‐speaker’‐levels of language ability as essential for employment. Within such a formulation international students can only ever be defined as in deficit. Drawing on socio‐cultural theories of language learning and academic literacy, alternative understandings of language proficiency in internationalized higher education are explored. Improved communication skills among graduates are likely to be achieved through a better understanding of issues beyond classroom instruction, such as barriers to social integration with native‐speakers, which reveal many international students unable to access adequate levels of language experience. Without wider perspectives on the debate over English language proficiency in higher education, the many benefits of having international students in higher education institutions are obscured by negative attitudes and unrealistic expectations. 相似文献
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邓跃平 《青海师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2007,(1):118-121
美国语言学家S．D．Krashen的二语习得理论五个假设对我国大学生外语环境下习得词汇有指导意义。有3，000以上词汇基础的大二以上学生加大课后以获取信息为目的的自主阅读量，即进行可理解性自然语言阅读输入，不仅能有效增加词汇量，而且能有效提高已知词汇的运用能力。 相似文献
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The development of unbiased tests is crucial in the arena of language testing in order to ensure validity. To date, studies of bias in language testing have mainly focused on factors such as gender, native language, or academic background, inter alia. However, bias may also result from psychological factors. Therefore, the present study investigates the role of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) test takers’ emotioncy, defined as the emotions evoked by senses that one holds for an entity, in their test performance. Specifically, this study aimed to examine emotioncy for the form as well as the meaning of 20 words to find out whether it can lead to differential functioning of the items on a vocabulary test. To this end, two emotioncy scales and a vocabulary test were designed. Then, based on the data collected from 235EFL students, the participants were bisected into the Low-Group and the High-Group, once based on their emotioncy scores for each word form and then based on their emotioncy scores for each word meaning. Subsequently, Rasch model-based Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analysis was performed across the two groups. The results showed that the vocabulary test items functioned differentially across the two groups in both form and meaning classifications, favoring the High-Group. Therefore, the study provides evidence for emotioncy as a psychological source of test bias and discusses implications for language testing stakeholders. 相似文献
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Improving the Academic Performance of Non‐native English‐Speaking Students: the Contribution of Pre‐sessional English Language Programmes 
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下载免费PDF全文 There is an established, if weak, inverse relationship between levels of English language proficiency and academic performance in higher education. In response, higher education institutions (HEIs) insist upon minimum entry requirements concerning language for international applicants. Many HEIs now also offer pre‐sessional English courses to bring applicants up to the designated language requirement. This paper revisits the research into language proficiency and academic performance using data on all full‐time students (17,925) attending a major UK HEI in the academic year 2011–2012, 4,342 of whom were non‐native English speakers. The findings confirm that while higher International English Language Testing System (IELTS) marks at entry translate into higher grade point averages (GPAs), students who undertake pre‐sessional courses do notably worse in GPA terms than students who arrive with acceptable (for the course) IELTS scores. These findings suggest HEIs (and, by extension, international students) could benefit from a review regarding the appropriateness of current pre‐sessional English language proficiency programmes. 相似文献
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İhsan Ünaldı 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2016,41(1):67-80
Although self-assessment of foreign language skills is not a new topic, it has not yet been widely explored in the Turkish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. The current study investigates the potential of self-assessment of foreign language skills in determining proficiency levels of Turkish learners of EFL: 239 learners participated in the study. Their receptive language skills were tested with an objective placement test, and the results were compared with the grades assigned by their instructors and the results of criterion-referenced self-assessment scores. Multiple regression analysis revealed that teacher and self-assessment scores were significantly correlated with each other; however, teacher assessment, compared to self-assessment, appeared to be a much stronger predictor of the actual proficiency levels of the participants. In addition to this, participants at lower level of proficiency revealed a common tendency of overestimating their language skills, while with the higher level learners there were clear signs of underestimation. 相似文献
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李红珍 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2012,(5):340-341
文体学的研究各主要文体的语言特点,从语音、词汇、句法、语义等层面研究不同语体特征篇章的语言使用特点。本文探讨在大学英语教学中,将文体学知识与学生语言学习紧密结合的方法,以帮助学生习得文体意识,理解语言运用的特点和规律,逐步实现语言运用的准确性、有效性和得体性,从而提高语言能力。 相似文献
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2008年开始的大学英语四、六级网考尚处于试点阶段。对网考问题与对策的研究有利于网考的完善、成熟与推广,促进考试与教学之间的互动。项目组通过问卷与访谈,调查了考生在网考中感受到的困难与问题,以及为适应新的考试形式对今后教学提出的建议。调查结果显示58.9%的考生认为网考的视听部分难度大,主要原因在于:语速快,对原声语音、语调不习惯,对题材、体裁不熟悉,词汇量大等等。调查结果也表明考生对屏幕呈现、输入、提交方式、答题时间、顺序的程序控制等网考方式的不适应。研究揭示了造成网考问题的三大主要症结:大学英语教学与网考要求脱节;网考自身的设计问题;设备状况与考试环境欠佳。基于调查分析,研究提出了教学双方、考试设计方以及学校管理方可采取的应对策略。 相似文献
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Kelvin Lai Susan Nankervis Margot Story Wayne Hodgson Michael Lewenberg 《高等教育研究与发展》2008,27(4):331-344
Throughout 2003–04 five cohorts of students in their final year of school studies in various Malaysian colleges and a group of students completing an Australian university foundation year in Malaysia sat the International Student Admissions Test (ISAT). The ISAT is a multiple‐choice test of general academic abilities developed for students whose first language is not English. Both sets of scores were examined to investigate the relationship between skills measured by the academic programs and the generic reasoning skills measured by the ISAT. The data were examined by looking at correlations and patterns of the ISAT scores, and the total academic program scores and individual subject scores. As well, multiple regression was used to examine if the ISAT could act as a predictor for academic program scores. Although the ISAT and measures of achievement in the academic programs are two completely different instruments, the study showed that: (i) the scores were positively and significantly correlated; (ii) patterns of co‐variation of the ISAT and academic program scores demonstrate a positive relationship; and (iii) there is evidence that achieving a high score in the academic programs requires high reasoning skills, as measured by the ISAT. The findings of this study indicate that the ISAT is a useful predictor of student ability for use in the university selection process for international applicants. 相似文献
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学习英语需要良好的语言环境,这样才能收到良好的学习效果。原声英文电影以其生动的情节、地道的英语与丰富的词汇为学习者提供了逼真、轻松的英语学习环境,有助于英语学习者提高语言质量,了解英语国家的社会状况、文化背景等。通过探析原声英语电影对英语专业学生在英语学习的语言和文化影响,对大学专业英语教学提出相应建议。 相似文献
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吴文辉 《延安教育学院学报》2010,24(5):90-91,93
语言测试是语言教学的重要环节,是测量学生语言习得成果的重要手段。衡量语言测试的关键是看它的信度和效度,好的测试是信度和效度的合理平衡的结果。拟就大学英语校内测试在信度和效度上的不足谈自己的看法,并提出相应的改进方法。 相似文献
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Michael Haugh 《高等教育研究与发展》2016,35(4):727-740
International students have continued to be the focus of simplistic stereotyping in media discourse where they are frequently identified as one of the forces behind declining academic standards in Australian universities. Their English language skills, in particular, have continued to be the focus of debate both in the mainstream media and in higher education research and policy. It is argued in this paper, however, that such debates do not sufficiently acknowledge the moral and affective complexity of the so-called ‘English problem’ amongst international students in Australian universities. Drawing from an analysis of small group interviews with international students, domestic students and university staff, the beliefs and experiences of various parties about the English language skills of international students are examined. A key finding from this analysis is that the English language skills of international students, and their concomitant interactions with others, can be the object of both complaints and troubles talk. These complaints or troubles can be either ratified or resisted by those participants. The difficulties international students may experience in using English thus have complex moral and affective consequences. The way in which the so-called English problem in Australian universities is generally couched as one of objective, measurable deficiency on the part of international students arguably neglects the moral and affective complexity of the difficulties facing international students. This neglect leads, in turn, to an impoverished understanding of the English language capabilities of international students. 相似文献
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陈盛谷 《海南师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2011,24(1):145-147
英语口语是大学英语专业教学的重要内容,现行的英语口语教学课堂存有许多不尽人意之处。将英语原版电影引进大学英语口语课堂,创设口语学习语境,能激发学生的学习兴趣,帮助学生攻克语音语调训练难关,积累丰富的词汇,培养良好的语感,提高英语口语的表达能力,从而获得较佳的课堂效益。文章旨在探讨英语电影在英语口语学习中所起的作用及英语电影在大学英语口语课堂的运用。 相似文献