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Khaled Barkaoui – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Many English-medium universities employ a compensatory model to establish cutscores on English language proficiency tests for student admissions. In this model, students can have different scores on different sections of the test provided their overall score meets the admission cutscore. This practice raises questions regarding potential variation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Language Proficiency, Profiles
McLeod, Melissa – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
Language proficiency testing has long played a role as both facilitator and barrier in global migration. This paper outlines how Canada and other traditional migrant destination countries use English-language proficiency testing for immigration, asylum and resettlement, and citizenship. It identifies commonalities between these three related areas…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigration, Language Proficiency
Khaled Barkaoui – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
This replication study sought to compare the academic achievement of undergraduate students with different score profiles on the TOEFL iBT. Two-step cluster analysis of TOEFL iBT section scores identified six clusters among 2,347 undergraduate students who met the required cutscore on the TOEFL iBT for admission to a Canadian English-medium…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Papageorgiou, Spiros; Davis, Larry; Ohta, Renka; Gomez, Pablo Garcia – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
In this research report, we describe a study to map the scores of the "TOEFL® Essentials"™ test to the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB). The TOEFL Essentials test is a four-skills assessment of foundational English language skills and communication abilities in academic and general (daily life) contexts. At the time of writing this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lin, You-Min; Y. Chen, Michelle – Language Testing, 2020
This study examined the writing score and writing feature changes of 562 repeat test takers who took the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program--General (CELPIP--General) test at least three times, with a short (30-40 day) interval between the first and second attempts and a longer (90-180 day) interval between the first and third…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Standardized Tests, Language Proficiency, Writing Tests
Hunte, Melissa R.; McCormick, Samantha; Shah, Maitree; Lau, Clarissa; Jang, Eunice Eunhee – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
Children's oral language proficiency (OLP) is integral for developing literacy skills. Storytelling or retelling is often used by parents and educators to elicit children's OLP, yet it is less commonly used for assessment purposes. Leveraged by natural language processing and machine learning, this study examined the extent to which computational…
Descriptors: Scores, Natural Language Processing, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
Lee, Andrew H.; Lyster, Roy – Language Awareness, 2023
The present study investigated the effects of different types of form-focused instruction (FFI) on the acquisition of French grammatical gender attribution. A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 140 participants in six intact French as a second language (L2) classes. The classes received six 80-minute instructional sessions consisting of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, French
Chen, Michelle Y.; Flasko, Jennifer J. – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
Seeking evidence to support content validity is essential to test validation. This is especially the case in contexts where test scores are interpreted in relation to external proficiency standards and where new test content is constantly being produced to meet test administration and security demands. In this paper, we describe a modified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Nicoladis, Elena; Mimovic, Anastassija – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Bilingual children's dominance can predict a variety of language and cognitive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to test the validity of parents' classifications of 3- to 6-year-old bilingual children's dominance against relative receptive vocabulary scores. In Study 1, the parents' classifications of Mandarin-English bilingual children's…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, French, English (Second Language), English
Johnson, Carol; Cardoso, Walcir; Zuercher, Beau; Brannen, Kathleen; Springer, Suzanne – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study examined the use of a popular Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Google Voice Typing (GVT), to automatically assess English as second language pronunciation. It aimed to answer the following question: What is the relationship between GVT-rated scores and human-rated scores? To answer this question, we compared audio recordings of 56…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
Neumann, Heike; Kozak, Stephanie; Gil, Leslie – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
The Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) assessment is a proficiency test for university admission. Most research has focused on the paper edition, not the recent computer edition (CE). Validity research on other proficiency tests found that relationships between proficiency scores and academic achievement measures can be tenuous because…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Steiger, Jane – BC TEAL Journal, 2022
While previous research on student success has focused on disciplinary academic classes and programs with varying results regarding the predictive validity of English proficiency tests, namely the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), none have studied student success within the non-program-specific context of an English for…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Johnson, Robert C.; Tweedie, M. Gregory – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
It has been widely asserted that general English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in postsecondary education has a limited future, given both the benefits of discipline-specific EAP, and the widespread use by universities of international standardized assessments for proof of English language proficiency (such as IELTS, PTE, TOEFL, etc.). The extra…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Daub, Olivia; Bagatto, Marlene P.; Johnson, Andrew M.; Cardy, Janis Oram – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Early auditory experiences are fundamental in infant language acquisition. Research consistently demonstrates the benefits of early intervention (i.e., hearing aids) to language outcomes in children who are deaf and hard of hearing. The nature of these benefits and their relation with prefitting development are, however, not well…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition, Assistive Technology
Abashidze, Dato; McDonough, Kim; Gao, Yang – Second Language Research, 2022
Recent research that explored how input exposure and learner characteristics influence novel L2 morphosyntactic pattern learning has exposed participants to either text or static images rather than dynamic visual events. Furthermore, it is not known whether incorporating eye gaze cues into dynamic visual events enhances dual pattern learning.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)