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Larcombe, Wendy; Malkin, Ian – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
As writing skills have a significant impact on a Law student's ability to successfully complete assessment tasks, it is important to identify early, and refer to appropriate programs, students likely to benefit from language and writing skills support. This article describes in-class exercises developed in the Law School at the University of…
Descriptors: Law Students, Law Schools, Writing Skills, Academic Support Services
Gould, Judith – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Australian Aboriginal children typically receive communication assessment services from Standard Australian English (SAE) speaking non-Aboriginal speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Educational assessments, including intelligence testing, are also primarily conducted by non-Aboriginal educational professionals. While the current paper will show…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Intelligence Tests, Speech Language Pathology, Foreign Countries
Ren, Guanxin – Babel, 2007
Essay marking is a subjective intellectual exercise in which the score reliability can be influenced by many factors such as the test design, the marker's interpretation of the marking criteria, the procedure, and the method used in the marking process. After conducting a literature review this study investigated the reliability of essay marking…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, Reliability, Test Construction
Chur-Hansen, Anna; Elliott, Taryn Elizabeth; Klein, Nigel Charles; Howell, Cate Adele – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: English-language proficiency of medical practitioners is an issue attracting increasing attention in medical education. To best provide language education support, it is essential that learning needs are assessed and that useful feedback and advice are provided. We report the outcomes of a language assessment that was embedded within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Written Language, Language Skills, Medical Education
McLauchlan, Alastair – Babel, 2007
Premature discontinuation rates among second language students in New Zealand are higher than for most other subjects in secondary schools, although this phenomenon has not given rise to a great deal of debate within the NZ language teaching community. In a recent study into premature discontinuation in Christchurch, NZ, the most frequently cited…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Power, Des; Hyde, Merv; Leigh, Greg – American Annals of the Deaf, 2008
A sample of elementary school-and high school-age deaf students in special education programs in the Australian state of Queensland using Australasian Signed English (ASE) took the Test of Syntactic Abilities (Quigley, Steinkamp, Power, & Jones, 1978) and wrote a story in response to a wordless picture sequence. Several analyses of the…
Descriptors: Manual Communication, Syntax, Written Language, Deafness
Norrby, Catrin; Hakansson, Gisela – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2007
One of the ways to investigate the mental lexicon is to use word association tests. Empirical studies comparing associations by children and adults have indicated a tendency for children to give syntagmatic responses, whereas adults give paradigmatic responses. In order to investigate lexical development in L2 acquisition of Swedish we collected…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Associative Learning, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development
Cohen, David – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
This article reports the findings of a study showing that one-third of all foreign students who studied at Australian universities speak English so poorly that they should never have been granted visas to study in the country in the first place. The study, by Robert Birrell, director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Australia's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Results, Language of Instruction, Language Tests
Gould, Judith – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
The role and significance of speech-language pathology (SLP) is not often considered in studies of language planning. SLP has tended to be considered more as an issue for health policy than for language policy. However, the health focus of SLP does interact with language planning especially in education where SLP assessments have implications for…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Community Schools, Indigenous Populations, Speech Language Pathology
Scarino, Angela – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
The history of the role of assessment in policy-making for languages education in Australia over the past 20 years is characterised by a complex and shifting interface between language policy, curriculum and assessment. Three phases can be identified during which significant changes occur. These highlight an ongoing struggle for legitimacy for…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy

Lokan, Jan; Fleming, Marianne – Language Testing, 2003
An extensive adaptation exercise was undertaken by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) when it was decided to modify the 1998 version of the American "SIGI Plus" (System for Interactive Guidance, plus more) for Australian conditions. Although the same language was involved, there are substantial differences in…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Second Language Learning

Mills, Nancy; Ovando, Carlos, Ed. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1988
Reviews a volume of descriptive and evaluative information on 47 commercially available English language proficiency tests used in North America, Great Britain, and Australia. The book includes discussions of uses and misuses of tests, and overviews of English as second language testing in North America and Great Britain. (SV)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
Schembri, Adam; Jones, Caroline; Burnham, Denis – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2005
Recent research into signed languages indicates that signs may share some properties with gesture, especially in the use of space in classifier constructions. A prediction of this proposal is that there will be similarities in the representation of motion events by sign-naive gesturers and by native signers of unrelated signed languages. This…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Verbs, Contrastive Linguistics

Gibbons, John; Lascar, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
To discover the extent to which academic register develops in language-minority children, it is important to describe the academic register of the minority language and then to develop instruments to measure its development. This article looks at the means that were developed to accomplish these two tasks of description and instrument development…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries

Martin, Anne L. – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, 1985
Discusses the concept of graded language levels (GLL) and three distinguishing features of the Australian situation that must be taken into account when importing this concept from Great Britain. Describes the English (GOML) and the Scottish (GLAFLL) variants of graded language levels. Offers suggestions for designing a GLL package for Australia.…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grading