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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - the teacher helps students relate the stories they read to their lives
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States50.6%
2 Canada44.3%
3 Australia32.3%
4 Republic of Korea32.0%
5 Italy31.6%
6 Sweden30.4%
7 United Kingdom30.2%
8 Japan29.8%
9 France 27.4%
10 Germany25.5%

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

Source
OECD PISA 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 0.799130 X +6.388
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 118710.719653 X +9269.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.645
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.416

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -17.702644 X +87.914
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 0.107510 X +1.443
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 15.399089 X +5.955
Correlation coefficient (r)0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069