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Learning Portuguese as a Second Language

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Authors:
  1. Sandra Figueiredo

    1. Department of Psychology and Sociology, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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  • Provides insights on the effects that schools can have on the performance of immigrant students and language minorities
  • Offers a rare insight into the factors that affect learners of Portuguese as a second language
  • Empirical studies compare students' performance across a range of factors, including school resources, teachers, mother tongue, nationality, and socioeconomic status
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

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This volume examines the specific effects that schools have on the performance of immigrant students and linguistic minority groups. Especially in the European context this study fills a gap in examining the effects that schools have on these students’ performance and performance differentiation, taking into account school related factors such as resources and teachers, and the influence of other variables like mother tongue and socioeconomic status. This report on an ongoing research project in Portugal examines state schools within the same district, in the same tests over the same assessment period. The study is based on the following set of relationships: between schools that administer proficiency tests to their non-native students; schools that do not use such tests; and schools with verifiable support programs (including physical and digital materials); and between the effect of the school and the predictive values of the nationality, mother tongue and socioeconomic status variables on the performance of non-native students of Portuguese.  

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. School Type and Resources: Predictor and Moderator Effects for Non-native Students’ Achievement

    • Sandra Figueiredo
    Pages 1-9

  3. Evidence Research Study: A Methodology for L2 Research

    • Sandra Figueiredo
    Pages 11-21

  4. Understand Variables and Influence for L2 Learners’ Achievement

    • Sandra Figueiredo
    Pages 23-45

  5. Schools and Resources as the Direct Effect that Explains the Performance of Non-native Students the Most

    • Sandra Figueiredo
    Pages 47-58
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology and Sociology, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Sandra Figueiredo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning Portuguese as a Second Language

  • Authors: Sandra Figueiredo

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55819-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55818-9Published: 02 May 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55819-6Published: 23 April 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 58

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Bilingualism

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