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| Title | Request for Language Educators: Ten Burning Questions Project |
| Body | You know, I’ve always wondered… When is the best time to start learning a language? How long does it take to get to Novice-High? Is there an “achievement gap” in foreign languages? We want to know what you have been wondering about. CASLS (http://casls.uoregon.edu ) is trying to identify the ‘ten burning questions’ that practicing teachers have about language learning and teaching. Then we will put our team of researchers to work on the problem. We will try to answer each of the ten burning questions with a combination of literature review of what others have found and original research based on data we have collected from administering the STAMP test (http://casls.uoregon.edu/stamp2.php ). This year about 50,000 students received STAMP scores. We also collect information on their home languages, years of study, program model, and teacher background. Putting this information together, we can find out how different factors affect proficiency. In fact, there is so much information in our database that we need help deciding where to prioritize. That is why CASLS is asking your help in identifying the ten burning questions that teachers really want answered. We can also look at specific aspects of student performance, such as pronunciation, spelling, fluency, and discourse structure. Don’t worry too much about whether the question is easy or hard for us to answer, just tell us what really matters to you as a teacher. Submit your question to lforrest@uoregon.edu Linda B. Forrest, Ph.D. Research Director Center for Applied Second Language Studies 5290 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 Tel: 541-346-1780 Fax: 541-346-6303 |
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| Inputdate | 2007-11-24 06:29:47 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-11-24 06:29:47 |
| Expdate | 2008-11-21 00:00:00 |
| Publishdate | 2007-11-26 00:00:00 |
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