Expressions, Fall 2014

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Association between young learners' English language performance and teacher proficiency and experience with English

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Volume 77, Issue 55https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6831/thumbnail.jp

Study on promoting cross-border activities for social economy; description of 52 cases

The current report has been elaborated during the course of the study entitled “Promoting cross-border activities for social economy, including social enterprises” (EASME/COSME/2018/032). The overarching objective of the study has been to study, assess and diffuse transnational social economy initiatives and activities of as well as corresponding European and national policies. In the framework of the study, 52 cases of social economy entities involved in crossborder activities have been selected and interviewed by the partnership.The pool of social economy entities includes initiatives either already engaged in transnational business activities (exporting or importing) or multinational social economy start-ups with international outreach

Expectations eclipsed in foreign language education: learners and educators on an ongoing journey / edited by Hülya Görür-Atabaş, Sharon Turner.

Between June 2-4, 2011 Sabancı University School of Languages welcomed colleagues from 21 different countries to a collaborative exploration of the challenging and inspiring journey of learners and educators in the field of language education.\ud \ud The conference provided an opportunity for all stakeholders to share their views on language education. Colleagues met with world-renowned experts and authors in the fields of education and psychology, faculty and administrators from various universities and institutions, teachers from secondary educational backgrounds and higher education, as well as learners whose voices are often not directly shared but usually reported.\ud \ud The conference name, Eclipsing Expectations, was inspired by two natural phenomena, a solar eclipse directly before the conference, and a lunar eclipse, immediately after. Learners and educators were hereby invited to join a journey to observe, learn and exchange ideas in orde

Association between young learners' English language performance and teacher proficiency and experience with English

Elementary school English language teachers in Swiss public schools often undergo criticism due to their supposed lack of English language proficiency though this is only one small part of the full set of skills necessary for certification. This study set out to discover if young learner performance in reading, writing and listening after one or two years of instruction with the same teacher is associated with the teacher’s measured language proficiency, with the teacher’s feelings of improvement, with the teacher’s contact with English outside the classroom as well as with teacher profiles of time spent on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in the classroom. Findings from this study suggest that neither teacher language proficiency nor teacher exposure to English outside of the classroom are determining factors in learner performance in the first two years of English instruction - indeed high levels of teacher proficiency in speaking and grammar here are negatively associated with learner performance. In this study, what positively associates with leaner performance is a teacher’s feeling of continually improving his or her speaking skills and instructional time on certain combinations of language skills. Implications from this research should help improve English language teaching effectiveness by refining priorities in teacher training.+repphzhbib2014