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Jian, Shi – English Language Teaching, 2013
In the field of applied linguistics, the English article is the acknowledged teaching and learning difficulty and receives lots of attention in second language acquisition (SLA). This paper, based on the Syntactic Misanalysis Account (SMA) advocated by Trenkic in which L2 articles are analyzed as adjectives by L2ers, proposes the English article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Lin, Jie; Wu, Fenglan – 2004
Understanding and accounting for gender performance differences on high stakes examinations has become a particular concern for educational researchers to ensure test fairness for all examinees. In the context of second/foreign language proficiency testing, research suggests that males and females do not react differently at the item level.…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Item Bias, Language Tests