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Yunwen Su; Sun-Young Shin – Language Testing, 2024
Rating scales that language testers design should be tailored to the specific test purpose and score use as well as reflect the target construct. Researchers have long argued for the value of data-driven scales for classroom performance assessment, because they are specific to pedagogical tasks and objectives, have rich descriptors to offer useful…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Language Tests, Test Construction, Performance Based Assessment
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Laura Schildt; Bart Deygers; Albert Weideman – Language Testing, 2024
In the context of policy-driven language testing for citizenship, a growing body of research examines the political justifications and ethical implications of language requirements and test use. However, virtually no studies have looked at the role that language testers play in the evolution of language requirements. Critical gaps remain in our…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Citizenship, Educational Policy, Assessment Literacy
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Yibin Zhang; Brian MacWhinney; Jing Zhou – SAGE Open, 2024
For proper assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of language disorders in Mandarin children, it is important to have measures that closely track the course of normal development. The current study uses a large collection of spontaneous conversational language samples to track the developmental course of five language measures: mean length of…
Descriptors: Norm Referenced Tests, Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Clinical Diagnosis
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Emily R. Zane; Ruth B. Grossman – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and aims: A substantial minority of autistic individuals score within typical ranges on standard language tests, suggesting that autism does not necessarily affect language acquisition. This idea is reflected in current diagnostic criteria for autism, wherein language impairment is no longer included. However, some work has suggested…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Tests, Language Impairments
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Al Lawati, Zahra Ali – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This study discusses the characteristics of test specifications (specs) and item writer guidelines (IWGs), their role in item development of English as a Second Language (ESL) reading tests, and the use of the CEFR for specs development. This mixed-method study analyzed specs, IWGs, tests, and the Pearson Test of English General test statistics.…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Items, Test Construction, English (Second Language)
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Ishikawa, Masako; Suzuki, Wataru – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Languaging--that is, using language to mediate thinking, orally or in writing--facilitates second language (L2) learning. As languaging requires the deliberate, analytical action of L2 learners, learners with higher language aptitude are likely to benefit more from languaging than those with lower aptitude. Thus, this study investigated the extent…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Written Language, Language Aptitude
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Zhao, Ruibin; Zhuang, Yipeng; Zou, Di; Xie, Qin; Yu, Philip L. H. – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Grading assignments is inherently subjective and time-consuming; automatic scoring tools can greatly reduce teacher workload and shorten the time needed for providing feedback to learners. The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel method for automatically scoring student responses to picture-cued writing tasks. As a popular paradigm for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Scoring, Visual Aids
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Bijani, Houman; Hashempour, Bahareh; Ibrahim, Khaled Ahmed Abdel-Al; Orabah, Salim Said Bani; Heydarnejad, Tahereh – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Due to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, the process for obtaining more consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral assessment is rater training. Recently,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Feedback (Response), Bias
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Hamed Ghaemi; Farina SaeidRezaei – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
Incremental intelligence plays an important role in self-regulating and enhancing writing performance among language learners. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship among variables of the incremental theory of intelligence, self-regulatory writing strategies, implicit theory of writing, and writing performance in EFL learners. To…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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Dongkwang Shin; Jang Ho Lee – ELT Journal, 2024
Although automated item generation has gained a considerable amount of attention in a variety of fields, it is still a relatively new technology in ELT contexts. Therefore, the present article aims to provide an accessible introduction to this powerful resource for language teachers based on a review of the available research. Particularly, it…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Artificial Intelligence, Test Items, Automation
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Nathan Devos; Deo Nizonkiza; Sarah Lynch – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
As post-secondary institutions assume more responsibility for the language abilities of their graduates, more attention is being paid to post-admission language support to enhance student success. Previous research has indicated that a post-admission language diagnostic assessment procedure, when coupled with language support services, can be an…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Language Tests, English, Higher Education
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Anja Riemenschneider; Zarah Weiss; Pauline Schröter; Detmar Meurers – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
The linguistic characteristics of text productions depend on various factors, including individual language proficiency as well as the tasks used to elicit the production. To date, little attention has been paid to whether some writing tasks are more suitable than others to represent and differentiate students' proficiency levels. This issue is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Language Proficiency
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Rachael Ruegg; Ha Hoang; Natalia Petersen – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
This study considers language proficiency test scores achieved by ESL students who subsequently entered a New Zealand university at the undergraduate level. Scores from IELTS and the university's in-house English Proficiency Test are analysed to determine the predictive ability of overall scores on these two tests and scores for each of the four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Alberto Sanchez Pedroche; Mario Valera-Pozo; Angelica Mateus Moreno; Maria Fernanda Lara Diaz; Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla; Daniel Adrover-Roig – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
The current diagnostic criteria for the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) include the possibility to specify concomitant language difficulties. Purpose: Our main aim was to explore whether children with ASD-Level 1 (ASD-L1) present difficulties in the acquisition of structural language, as little work has been done in this regard so far. As a…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Impairments, Children, Early Adolescents
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Su, Yongqiang; Chen, Xi; Huo, Michelle Ru Yun; Gan, Yan; Zhang, Jiawen; Li, Hong – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
In the present study, we designed a dynamic measure to assess emerging morphological awareness in Chinese children and examined its concurrent and longitudinal relations with character recognition. The initial question of the dynamic assessment of morphological awareness (DAMA) task asked children to judge whether the first morphemes in a pair of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Morphemes, Identification, Character Recognition
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