This paper presents the results of an empirical study designed to map German language proficiency among students at … ability of students at Czech universities of business and management to communicate in German is poor, and exceeds the general … German language proficiency of the Czech population only to an insignificant extent. Second, the school environment (the …

, demographically-similar teachers can increase students' achievement. These studies have tended to focus on the role of race and gender … similarities between student and teacher. This study is the first to examine the role of native language similarity. Using a …, this study exploits variation in contemporaneous test scores and whether the student shares the same native language as the …