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Polat, Murat – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
The assessment of speaking skills in foreign language testing has always had some pros (testing learners' speaking skills doubles the validity of any language test) and cons (many testrelevant/irrelevant variables interfere) since it is a multi-dimensional process. In the meantime, exploring grader behaviours while scoring learners' speaking…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Interrater Reliability, Speech Skills, Second Language Learning
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Çetin Köroglu, Zeynep – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2021
As it is known formative assessment focuses on both learning process and learner's performance. In this study, digital formative assessment and traditional speaking tests were utilized comparatively to evaluate 52 upper-intermediate EFL learners' English language speaking skills. The study was designed as a mixed-method. The quantitative data were…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Altinbas, Mehmet Emre; Savas, Perihan – International Journal on E-Learning, 2020
The aim of the present study was to investigate the outcomes of using multiplayer online computer games for the development of English as a foreign language (EFL) skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). For this purpose, the study employed a repeated measures design. The study was conducted with 13 multiplayer online gamer EFL learners…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Outcomes of Education, Language Proficiency
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Gunes, Sevim – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This study aims to reveal students' perceptions about the Foreign (English) Language Test implemented as a component of University Entrance Exam. There were two groups as the participants of the study: the first group included pre-service English teachers studying in the English language teaching (ELT) Department and the second group consisted of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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Chong, Sin Wang, Ed.; Reinders, Hayo, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2023
This edited book documents practices of learning-oriented language assessment through practitioner research and research syntheses. Learning-oriented language assessment refers to language assessment strategies that capitalise on learner differences and their relationships with the learning environments. In other words, learners are placed at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods, Student Centered Learning
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Ekmekçi, Emrah – English Language Teaching, 2016
Assessing speaking skills is regarded as a complex and hard process compared with the other language skills. Considering the idiosyncratic characteristics of EFL learners, oral proficiency assessment issue becomes even more important. Keeping this situation in mind, judgements and reliability of raters need to be consistent with each other. This…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers, Non English Speaking, Second Language Instruction