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Paula Elosua – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
In sociolinguistic contexts where standardized languages coexist with regional dialects, the study of differential item functioning is a valuable tool for examining certain linguistic uses or varieties as threats to score validity. From an ecological perspective, this paper describes three stages in the study of differential item functioning…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Scores, Test Validity
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Hye-won Lee; Andrew Mullooly; Amy Devine; Evelina Galaczi – Applied Linguistics, 2024
In the assessment of second language oral communication, the video-call speaking test has received increasing attention as a test method with higher practicality than its in-person counterpart, but still with broad coverage of the test construct. Previous studies into video-call assessment have focussed on the individual (as opposed to paired or…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Speech Communication, Interaction Process Analysis
Kathy King – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The appropriate selection of standardized tests is integral to establishing an accurate early diagnosis and providing timely treatment to optimize language outcomes in young children. However, clinicians sometimes utilize tests that are not validated for this specific purpose. This applied dissertation was designed to investigate the validity of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Language Impairments, Young Children, Language Tests
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Ali Yildirim; Maria Proitsaki Stjernkvist; Raili Hilden; Birgitta Fröjdendahl; Anne Dragemark Oscarson – Review of Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate summative assessment (SA) perceptions and the sources of summative assessment literacy for novice second/foreign language teachers in Sweden and Finland. Data were collected through a questionnaire (N = 27) and a semi-structured interview (N = 22) from a group of novice teachers who graduated from two…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Assessment Literacy, Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers
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David J. Purpura; Connor D. O'Rear; Alexa Ellis; Jessica A. R. Logan; Lauren Westerberg; Patrick Ehrman; Yemimah A. King; Mackenna Vander Tuin; Inga Nordgren; Kirsten Anderson; Jimena Cosso; Erica Zippert; Amy R. Napoli; Caroline Byrd Hornburg; Sara A. Schmitt; Jennifer Dobbs-Oates – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Children's early understanding of mathematics provides a foundation for later success in school. Identifying ways to enhance mathematical instruction is crucial to understanding the ideal ways to promote academic success. Previous work has identified mathematical language (i.e., the words and concepts related to early mathematical development such…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Numeracy, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Concepts
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Yang Li; Aina Casaponsa; Manon Jones; Guillaume Thierry – Language Learning, 2024
Chinese learners of English often experience difficulty with English tense presumably because their native language is tenseless. We showed that this difficulty relates to their incomplete conceptual representations for tense rather than their poor grammatical rule knowledge. Participants made acceptability judgments on sentences describing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Peter Howell; Clarissa Sorger; Roa'a Alsulaiman; Kaho Yoshikawa; John Harris; Kevin Tang – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Non-word repetition (NWR) tests are an important way speech and language therapists (SaLTs) assess language development. NWR tests are often scored whilst participants make their responses (i.e., in real time) in clinical and research reports (documented here via a secondary analysis of a published systematic review). Aims: The main…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Scoring, Accuracy, Children
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Mohammed Ali Mohsen; Hassan Saleh Mahdi; Reem Alkhammash – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Multimedia glosses have been examined extensively by researchers for over three decades to determine their possible effects in second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. Many meta-analytic studies aimed to determine the extent to which glosses can impact L2 vocabulary learning and the moderators that can mediate the results of meta-analytic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Multimedia Materials, Recall (Psychology)
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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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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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