Alignment of accountability and language planning and policy in the third millennium
Keywords:
accountability, external mechanism, standards, language planning and policyAbstract
In the language planning and policy setting of the third millennium, the specific mechanisms in curriculums for educational states and schools are important in the process of transferring the high quality of instruction to educators. Accountability as a new and critical trend in language education has to do with these mechanisms which lie in governmental policies and helps us to understand how standards effects teaching and learning and how it can be implemented in language planning and policies. The governments try to achieve educational accountability through developing national standards for different curriculum domains, and the role of these standards is so dominant that it cannot be ignored. Following the influence of accountability gives us the reason for investigating how alignment and accountability interact with each other for districts, schools, and classrooms in which leads to enhancing the performances and creation of mutual relationships between accountability and intra-school accountability. This paper is a review related to accountability and its mechanisms, the models in the external mechanism, accountability and standards, and accountability in language planning and policies in the third millennium.
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Callahan, R. M. (2006). The intersection of accountability and language: Can reading intervention replace English language development?. Bilingual Research Journal, 30(1), 1-21.
Cook, V. (2003). Introduction: The changing L1 in the L2 user’s mind. In V. Cook (Ed.), Effects of the second language on the first (pp. 1-18). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Coburn, C. E., Hill, H. C., & Spillane, J. P. (2016). Alignment and accountability in policy design and implementation: The Common Core State Standards and implementation research. Educational Researcher, 45(4), 243-251.
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Davies, A. (2008). Accountability and standards. In B. Spolsky & F. M. Hult (Eds.), The handbook of educational linguistics (pp. 483-494). Malden. MA: Blackwell Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470694138.ch34
Dee, T. S., & Dizon-Ross, E. (2019). School Performance, Accountability, and Waiver Reforms: Evidence from Louisiana. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 41(3), 316-349.
Doughty, C. J. (2015). Accountability of Foreign Language Programs. The Modern Language Journal, 99(2), 412-415.
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Erdağ, C. (2017). Accountability Policies at Schools: A Study of Path Analysis. Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 17(4), 1405-1432.
Gooler, D. D., & Grotelueschen, A. (1970). Process Accountability in Curriculum Development.
Hadley, G. (1998). Returning full circle: A survey of EFL syllabus designs for the new millennium". RELC Journal, 29. 2: 50-67.
Hooge, E., & Wilkoszewski, H. (2012). Looking beyond the numbers: Stakeholders and multiple school accountability.
Irons, E. J., Carlson, N. L., Lowery-Moore, H., & Farrow, V. R. (2007). Standards and Accountability Implementation, Why, How, Where: Teachers' Perceptions. Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 7(2), 1-19.
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Kachru, Y. (2011). World Englishes: Contexts and relevance for language education. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning (vol. 2, pp. 155-172). New York: Routledge.
Levin, H. M. (1974). “A conceptual framework for accountability in education”. The School Review, 82(3), pp. 363-391.
Littlejohn, A. (1998). Language teaching for the millennium. English Teaching Professional, 8: 3-5.
Maftoon, P. Taie, M. (2016). Language curriculum planning for the third millennium: A future perspective. International Journal of English Linguistics; Vol. 6, No. 4; 2016 ISSN 1923-869X E-ISSN 1923-8703
Marsh, C. J. (2004). Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge Falmer.
McDonnell, L. M. (2013). Educational accountability and policy feedback. Educational Policy, 27(2), 170-189.
McKay, S. L. (2011). English as an international lingua franca pedagogy. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning (vol. 2, pp. 122-139). New York: Routledge.
McIlrath, L., & MacLabhrainn, I. (Eds.). (2007). Higher education and civic engagement: International perspectives. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
McLaughlin, M. A., Price, P. T., & Shoultz Jr, G. R. (1992). Whole language, critical literacy and accountability. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 25(1), 29-39.
MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages. (2007). Foreign languages and higher education: New structures for a changed world. Profession, 12, 234-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/prof.2007.2007.1.234
National Research Council, (1999). Testing, Teaching, and Learning: A Guide for States and School Districts. Washington. DC: The National Academies Press. http://doi.org/10.17226/9609.
National Governors Association. (1986). Common core state standards. Washington, DC.
Neilson, L. (1989). Literacy and living: The literate lives of three adults. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multi-literacies: Designing social futures. Harvard educational review, 66(1), 60-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.66.1.17370n67v22j160u
Ndawi, O., & Peasuh, M. (2005). Accountability and school obligation: a case study of society’s expectations of the school’s curriculum in Zimbabwe. South African journal of education, 25(3), 210-115.
Norton, B. (2001). Non-participation, imagined communities, and the language classroom. In M. P. Breen (Ed.), Learner contributions to language learning: New directions in research (pp. 159-171). London: Pearson Education Limited.
Nunan, D. (2006). The second language curriculum in the new millennium. Retrieved from: http://www.lunwen700.com/Article/yingyulunwen/25907.html
OECD (2011). Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing.
Poulson, L. (1998). Accountability, teacher professionalism and education reform in England. Teacher Development, 2(3), 419-432.
Richards, J. C., & Schmidt, R. (Eds.). (2010). Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics. Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd.
Richards, J. C., & Schmidt, R. (2013). Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics. Routledge.
Richards, J. C. (2013). Curriculum approaches in language teaching: Forward, central, and backward design. RELC Journal, 44(1), 5-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033688212473293
Robinson, C. D., & Varley, F. (1998). Language diversity and accountability in the South: Perspectives and dilemmas. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2(2), 189-203.
Rogers, T. (2000). Methodology in the New Millennium. English Teaching Forum, 38.2. Retrieved from: Richards, J. C., & Schmidt, R. (2010). Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics. Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd. http://eca.state.gov/forum/vols/vol38/no2/p2.htm
Shek, D. T., & Hollister, R. M. (2017). University social responsibility and quality of life. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Limited.
Slattery, P. (2012). Curriculum development in the postmodern era: Teaching and learning in an age of accountability. Routledge.
Sparapani, E. F., & Perez, D. M. C. (2015). Perspective on the standardized curriculum and its effect on teaching and learning. Journal of Education & Social Policy, 2(5), 78-87.
Smith, W. C., & Benavot, A. (2019). Improving accountability in education: the importance of structured democratic voice. Asia Pacific Education Review, 1-13.
South Australia Curriculum Standards and Accountability (2005) retrieved from http://www.sacsa.sa.edu.au/index_fsrc.asp?t=Home
Spencer, B. L. (2006). The will to accountability: Reforming education through standardized literacy testing (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (UMI No. NR15947)
Steets, J. (2010). Accountability in public policy partnerships. Palgrave Macmillan.
Stobart, G. (2009). ‘Determining validity in national curriculum assessments’, Educational Research, 51, 2, 161–179, (DOI: 10.1080/00131880902891305) [online]. Available: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131880902891305 [5 September, 2018].
Weideman, A. (2003). Towards accountability: A point of orientation for post-modern applied linguistics in the third millennium". Literator,24.1: 1-20.
Werts, A. B., Della Sala, M., Lindle, J., Horace, J. M., Brewer, C., & Knoeppel, R. (2013). Education stakeholders' translation and sense-making of accountability policies. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 12(4), 397-419.
Whitehead, K. (2001). The South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability Framework: A fillip for middle schooling?. Australian Curriculum Studies Association.
Wiley, T. G., & Wright, W. E. (2004). Against the undertow: Language-minority education policy and politics in the “age of accountability”. Educational Policy, 18(1), 142-168.
Wrigley, J. (1978). Accountability and curriculum development. The South Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 6(3), 192-196.
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Soleimani, F. (2020). Alignment of accountability and language planning and policy in the third millennium. AJELP: Asian Journal of English Language and Pedagogy, 8(1), 8–17. Retrieved from https://ejournal.upsi.edu.my/index.php/AJELP/article/view/3396
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