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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - the teacher encourages students to express their opinion about a text
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
73 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation84.4%
2 Kazakhstan82.3%
3 Azerbaijan74.7%
4 Albania73.4%
5 Moldova72.3%
6 Kyrgyzstan71.9%
7 India71.6%
8 Peru70.7%
9 Latvia70.6%
10 Tunisia69.3%
11 Croatia68.1%
12 Montenegro68.0%
13 Lithuania67.8%
14 Turkiye67.5%
15 Serbia67.4%
16 Poland67.0%
17 Georgia66.8%
18 Jordan66.2%
19 Romania66.0%
20 United Arab Emirates65.9%
21 United States65.8%
22 Slovenia65.3%
23 Canada65.2%
23 United Kingdom65.2%
25 Thailand63.6%
26 Ireland63.2%
27 Portugal63.0%
28 Australia62.9%
28 Trinidad and Tobago62.9%
30 Hungary62.7%
31 Colombia61.6%
31 Panama61.6%
33 Bulgaria61.3%
34 Brazil61.1%
35 New Zealand60.9%
36 Mauritius60.6%
37 Qatar60.4%
38 Italy59.8%
39 Greece59.5%
40 Estonia59.3%
41 China59.2%
42 Argentina58.4%
42 France58.4%
44 Denmark57.9%
44 Mexico57.9%
46 Germany57.7%
47 Chile57.3%
47 Malta57.3%
49 Venezuela56.8%
50 Indonesia56.5%
51 Switzerland56.0%
52 Sweden55.7%
53 Luxembourg55.4%
53 Uruguay55.4%
55 Austria54.0%
56 Spain53.5%
57 Costa Rica52.2%
58 Slovakia51.9%
59 Belgium50.6%
59 Malaysia50.6%
61 Singapore48.8%
62 Czech Republic48.7%
63 Liechtenstein48.3%
64 Finland47.2%
65 Israel45.1%
66 Hong Kong, China44.5%
67 Japan 41.6%
68 Norway41.3%
69 Taiwan41.0%
70 Iceland37.5%
71 Macao, China36.9%
72 Netherlands35.5%
73 Republic of Korea25.8%

Note
Don't know/ No answer are excluded. China: Shanghai only.

No data for 165 countries.

Source
OECD PISA 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = -3.216050 X +8.191
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = -105194.610982 X +94700.875
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = -30.184169 X +95.457
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.639
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.408

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = 1.457399 X +0.804
Correlation coefficient (r)0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = -1.337439 X +9.832
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001