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Direct linkCai, Yuyang; Lei, Chunlin – Educational Studies, 2021
This study examined the profiles of L2 strategy use and their association with different types of L2 reading achievement. A total of 1491 college students responded to a strategy use questionnaire evaluating the efficiency of strategy use immediately after they took an English reading test. Results of latent profile analysis revealed: (1) there…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Profiles, Correlation
Cai, Yuyang; Chen, Huilin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Thinking skills play a critical role in determining language performance. Recent advancement in cognitive diagnostic modelling (CDM) provides a powerful tool for obtaining fine-grained information regarding these thinking skills during reading. Studies are scant, however, exploring the relations between thinking skills and language performance,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Reading Processes
Yung, Kevin Wai Ho; Cai, Yuyang – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Secondary school-leaving English examination results are often regarded as indicators of students' competence to study in English-medium universities, which is usually demonstrated through source-based academic writing. In English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts, many English-medium universities require local undergraduates to…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Writing Achievement, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Cai, Yuyang – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This study compares two approaches to grammatical knowledge in language assessment: the structural view that regards grammatical knowledge as vocabulary and syntax (Bachman 1990), and the communicative view that perceives it as the binary combination of grammatical form and meaning (Purpura 2004). 1,491 second-year nursing students from eight…
Descriptors: Grammar, Comparative Analysis, Medical Education, Nursing Education
