Hispanic students receive more favorable evaluations from Hispanic teachers who share the same native language than Hispanic … student outcomes like achievement and teachers' evaluations of their behavior for Black and White students, findings appear to … be noticeably mixed for Hispanic students. This paper shows that a potential reason for the mixed findings for Hispanic …

Understanding learners’ epistemological beliefs as one of the core segments affecting students’ learning experiences is … of cardinal importance both from the point of conveying new knowledge and acquiring it. In English language teaching …, studying language learning beliefs has become a popular research area, with its genesis found in the seminal paper by Horwitz …

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between … modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In addition, we study whether there are spillover effects of peers …

, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of … language proficiency is crucial for good integration policy, as is understanding the relationship between these measures and …

In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound …’ economic opportunities, since foreign language proficiency may enhance or signal productivity in the labor market. Recent … empirical evidence documents positive labor market returns to English language skills in transition countries. However, Russian …