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Direct linkShanshan He; Anne-Marie Sénécal; Laura Stansfield; Ruslan Suvorov – Language Testing, 2025
Test preparation has garnered considerable attention in second language (L2) education due to the significant implications that successful performance on a language test may have for academic advancement, future career opportunities, and immigration prospects. Meanwhile, an overemphasis on test preparation has been criticized for encouraging the…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Study Habits
Ihlenfeldt, Samuel Dale; Rios, Joseph A. – Language Testing, 2023
For institutions where English is the primary language of instruction, English assessments for admissions such as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and International English Language Testing System (IELTS) give admissions decision-makers a sense of a student's skills in academic English. Despite this explicit purpose, these exams…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Test Validity, College Admission, Second Language Learning
Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency: A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis
Yan, Xun; Maeda, Yukiko; Lv, Jing; Ginther, April – Language Testing, 2016
Elicited imitation (EI) has been widely used to examine second language (L2) proficiency and development and was an especially popular method in the 1970s and early 1980s. However, as the field embraced more communicative approaches to both instruction and assessment, the use of EI diminished, and the construct-related validity of EI scores as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
