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Duijm, Klaartje; Schoonen, Rob; Hulstijn, Jan H. – Language Testing, 2018
It is general practice to use rater judgments in speaking proficiency testing. However, it has been shown that raters' knowledge and experience may influence their ratings, both in terms of leniency and varied focus on different aspects of speech. The purpose of this study is to identify raters' relative responsiveness to fluency and linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Accuracy, Second Languages, Language Tests
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Schoonen, Rob; Verhallen, Marianne – Language Testing, 2008
The assessment of so-called depth of word knowledge has been the focus of research for some years now. In this article the construct of deep word knowledge is further specified as the decontextualized knowledge of word meanings and word associations. Most studies so far have involved adolescent and adult second language learners. In this article,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Associative Learning, Foreign Countries