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Yan Jin; Jason Fan – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
In language assessment, AI technology has been incorporated in task design, assessment delivery, automated scoring of performance-based tasks, score reporting, and provision of feedback. AI technology is also used for collecting and analyzing performance data in language assessment validation. Research has been conducted to investigate the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Format
Han, Chao – Language Testing, 2022
Over the past decade, testing and assessing spoken-language interpreting has garnered an increasing amount of attention from stakeholders in interpreter education, professional certification, and interpreting research. This is because in these fields assessment results provide a critical evidential basis for high-stakes decisions, such as the…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Tests, Testing, Evaluation Methods
Beauchamp, Myriam L. H.; MacLeod, Andrea A. N. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Few studies have focused on bilingual language development in school-aged simultaneous bilingual children. The current study tackles this gap in the literature by examining the influence of language exposure on the development of both languages in school-aged simultaneous bilingual living in additive bilingual contexts. The language abilities of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Language Aptitude, Language Tests
Keblawi, Faris – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2022
Tests are an integral part of most formal language learning processes, exerting far-reaching effects on many aspects of language learning. Among other things, tests affect language learning motivation (LLM), an element that is fundamental to many learning contexts. However, little attention has been paid to how tests affect LLM and what the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Student Motivation, Arabic, Second Language Learning
Larenas, Claudio Díaz; Figueroa, Paz Aravena; Martínez, Leslie Cisternas; Navarrete, Mabel Ortiz; Paniagua, Juan Fernando Gómez – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
The current study identifies and analyzes, through metaphor analysis, the conceptualizations and beliefs preservice teachers of English hold about three different dimensions of the language assessment process: teachers, students, and assessment itself. Forty-nine preservice teachers from the second to the fifth year of their English Teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, English Instruction, Figurative Language
Phung, Doan Hieu; Ha, Hung Tan – SAGE Open, 2022
The article offers an in-depth lexical analysis of the listening sub-test of the famous International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The vocabulary profile of 239 listening transcripts from 60 IELTS official practice tests were analyzed. The results showed that, 3,000 most frequent word families in the British National Corpus/Corpus of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension Tests
Arias, Angel; Vessey, Rachelle; Sheyholislami, Jaffer – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Language assessment for citizenship is a ubiquitous enforced and enacted policy in several developed countries (e.g., Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Netherlands, to name a few). In this regard, language testers have expressly argued that this practice enacts injustice for and adds hurdles to marginalized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants, Citizenship
Zoe L. Handley; Haiping Wang – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
This paper explores what the measures of utterance fluency typically employed in Automatic Speech Evaluation (ASE), i.e. automated speaking assessments, tell us about oral proficiency. 60 Chinese learners of English completed the second part of the speaking section of IELTS and six tasks designed to measure the linguistic knowledge and processing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Evaluation, Graduate Students, Articulation (Speech)
Shazia Hasnain; Santoshi Halder – Journal of Education, 2024
Complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as measures of language proficiency have been used extensively in assessing second language production in English language studies related to task-based language teaching. The present review adds the following critical elements to the existing body of literature: (i) Provides synthesis and critical analysis…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Okim Kang; Xun Yan; Maria Kostromitina; Ron Thomson; Talia Isaacs – Language Testing, 2024
This study aimed to answer an ongoing validity question related to the use of nonstandard English accents in international tests of English proficiency and associated issues of test fairness. More specifically, we examined (1) the extent to which different or shared English accents had an impact on listeners' performances on the Duolingo listening…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Nonstandard Dialects
Fuyu Kong; Yanli Zhang – SAGE Open, 2024
To explore the washback of the HSK on students learning Chinese as a Second Language (CSL), the study surveyed 1,616 SCL students from 25 different mother tongue backgrounds and interviewed international students studying in China through questionnaire and interview. The following was found in this study: (a) The HSK influenced both the process…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Jitpicha Jarayapun – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
A staff study (SS) is an administrative tool used for decision-making, involving comprehensive data gathering and analysis to resolve issues. Particularly crucial in military settings where classified information limits resources, staff studies also demonstrate their value in interdisciplinary academic fields. This article emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Military Schools, Educational Policy, Language Tests
Debra Jo Ponce – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers' beliefs about language and technology, pedagogy, and ability to integrate them can be challenging within the second language classroom. This study was a conceptual replication of previous work in the field of TPACK with world language teachers. This mixed-methods study included 59 current in-service world language teachers grades 9-12 in…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, High School Teachers, Language Teachers
Nancy L. Potter; Mark VanDam; Laurel Bruce; Jenny Davis; Linda Eng; Lizbeth Finestack; Victoria Heinlen; Nancy Scherer; Claire Schrock; Ryan Seltzer; Carol Stoel-Gammon; Lauren Thompson; Beate Peter – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Babble Boot Camp (BBC) is a parent-implemented telepractice intervention for infants at risk for speech and language disorders. BBC uses a teach-model-coach-review approach, delivered through weekly 15-min virtual meetings with a speech-language pathologist. We discuss accommodations needed for successful virtual follow-up test…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Intervention, Speech Evaluation, Language Tests
Hiu Che Foo; Chenwei Tang; Yuting Kao; Hsingmei Wu; Chelun Chang; Meiyao Wu; Yuchun Lo; Shihming Weng – American Annals of the Deaf, 2024
Our study investigated the differences in speech performance and neurophysiological response in groups of school-age children with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) who were otherwise typically developing (TD). We recruited a total of 16 primary school-age children for our study (UHL = 9/TD = 7), who were screened by doctors at Shin Kong Wu-Ho-Su…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Speech Skills, Intelligence Tests, Verbal Ability