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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - the teacher poses questions that motivate students to participate actively
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Colombia70.9%
2 United States69.5%
3 Lithuania67.1%
4 United Kingdom66.0%
5 Mexico65.9%
6 Canada64.7%
7 Latvia64.5%
7 Portugal64.5%
9 Turkiye63.6%
10 Chile63.5%
11 Slovenia62.4%
12 Hungary62.3%
13 New Zealand61.5%
14 Greece61.3%
15 Australia61.1%
16 Sweden60.9%
17 Poland60.8%
18 Denmark60.0%
19 Italy59.0%
20 Costa Rica58.7%
21 Switzerland 57.1%
22 Germany56.6%
23 Ireland55.9%
24 Iceland55.3%
25 Austria54.2%
25 France54.2%
27 Spain54.1%
28 Israel52.7%
29 Luxembourg51.9%
29 Slovakia51.9%
31 Belgium51.8%
32 Estonia51.5%
33 Norway47.1%
34 Finland46.8%
35 Japan40.3%
36 Netherlands39.7%
37 Czech Republic38.4%
38 Republic of Korea36.2%

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 data38
Regression equation
Y = -1.514105 X +7.547
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -74946.409899 X +87266.010
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -19.361190 X +90.878
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 0.448494 X +1.332
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -11.238112 X +16.259
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055