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Alfelia Nugky Permatasari; Firmansyah Firmansyah; Heri Retnawati – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
Becoming one of six official United Nations languages, English proficiency has become a prominent requirement for students and professionals entering international education and/ or careers, as assessed through standardized English proficiency tests. English learners conducted varied procedures to pursue the minimum test score criteria, including…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Junlan Pan; Emma Marsden – Language Testing, 2024
"Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning" (TALL) is an openly accessible internet-based battery to measure the multifaceted construct of foreign language aptitude, using language domain-specific instruments and L1-sensitive instructions and stimuli. This brief report introduces the components of this theory-informed battery and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Aptitude Tests, Second Language Learning, Test Construction
Ian R. Hadden; Peter R. Harris; Matthew J. Easterbrook – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: An earlier study in a school in England found that a series of brief values affirmation writing exercises, performed over the course of a school year by students aged 11-14, increased the mathematics attainment of students of low socioeconomic status (SES). Aims: This pre-registered follow-up of the original study aims to investigate…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Early Adolescents, Writing Exercises, Followup Studies
Shadi Noroozi; Hossein Karami – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Recently, psychometricians and researchers have voiced their concern over the exploration of language test items in light of Messick's validation framework. Validity has been central to test development and use; however, it has not received due attention in language tests having grave consequences for test takers. The present study sought to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Graduate Students, Language Proficiency
Ran Wei; Yu Li – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Vocabulary is an essential component of language learning. Despite the fact that form-focused instruction (hereinafter FFI) has been demonstrated to be effective in language learning, it remains unclear when and how FFI can contribute to vocabulary learning. To address this question, this study takes the timing of FFI into consideration and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
Aidana Ainabek; Bekzhan Abdualiuly; Samal Zhuanyshpaeva; Aliya Ongarbayeva; Aigul Aitymova; Assem Belgibekova – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
Kazakh and Nogai peoples have shared many similar experiences throughout history. In the theoretical dimension of this study, the common features of Kazakh and Nogai communities in the fields of language, culture and geography are analyzed in a comparative perspective. In the research dimension, the common history of Kazakh and Nogai peoples,…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethnic Groups
Jonathan Serfaty; Raquel Serrano – Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated how much practice is necessary for learners to attain durable second language (L2) grammar knowledge. Using digital flashcards, 119 participants practiced translating 12 sentences into an artificial language, followed by feedback, until they had typed all sentences correctly. Participants repeated this activity in one, two,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
Daniel R. Isbell; Dustin Crowther; Hitoshi Nishizawa – Language Testing, 2024
The extrapolation of test scores to a target domain - that is, association between test performances and relevant real-world outcomes - is critical to valid score interpretation and use. This study examined the relationship between Duolingo English Test (DET) speaking scores and university stakeholders' evaluation of DET speaking performances. A…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Higher Education, Stakeholders
Yu-Tzu Chang; Ann Tai Choe; Daniel Holden; Daniel R. Isbell – Language Testing, 2024
In this Brief Report, we describe an evaluation of and revisions to a rubric adapted from the Jacobs et al.'s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE, with four rubric categories and 20-point rating scales, in the context of an intensive English program writing placement test. Analysis of 4 years of rating data (2016-2021, including 434 essays) using…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Rating Scales, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Kaori Nakao; Quint W. L. Oga-Baldwin; Luke K. Fryer – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
Foreign language was recently added to Japan's national primary school curriculum. Phoneme-Grapheme Recognition (PGR) skills are a critical step in both L1 and L2 development. Due to its simplistic approach and the lack of new investment in teacher training, research regarding the impact on PGR skills are important. This study tested the relative…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Elementary School Students, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language)
Maria Kaltsa; Alexandra Prentza; Leonarda Prela; Ianthi Maria Tsimpli – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present paper aims to investigate the interplay of lexical and grammatical development in school-aged Greek-Albanian bilingual children by providing evidence both from majority, Greek, and heritage, Albanian. To this end, 47 8 to 10-year-old bilingual children were tested by means of expressive vocabulary tests in Greek and in Albanian, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Young Children
Ka Yan Fung; Lik Hang Lee; Kuen Fung Sin; Shenghui Song; Huamin Qu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
With the ability to provide feedback and assistance, humanoid educational robots have been proven effective in assisting students to overcome learning challenges and enhancing individual learning outcomes. However, the strength of humanoid robots in promoting social and emotional skills has not been well investigated. Socially supportive behaviour…
Descriptors: Robotics, Man Machine Systems, Educational Technology, Language Acquisition
Carmit Altman; Sveta Fichman; Noy Perry; Pola Osher; Joel Walters – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: We examined the role of narrative microstructure (production of words and sentences) and narrative macrostructure (organization of events) in the use of internal state terms (ISTs) in narratives of bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in their school language (SL). Method: Fifty-eight Russian-Hebrew bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Colton Seaman; Leticia Rincón Herce; Aaron Yamada – Second Language Research, 2024
Recent studies in the second language acquisition of negation have focused on polarity items and their licensing contexts. Although several studies show a correlation between higher degrees of second language (L2) proficiency and the acquisition of the target L2 structures, less attention has been given to the relation between the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
Reza Zabihi; Shiva Ghominejad; Mohammad Javad Ahmadian – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study aimed to investigate whether and how willingness to communicate, communication in English anxiety, behavioural inhibition and action predict perceived second language (L2) fluency. The study also looked at whether L2 proficiency moderates the strength of relationships between these affective factors and L2 perceived fluency. One hundred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning