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Chan, Alice Y. W. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This article discusses the strategies used by Cantonese ESL learners to cope with their problems in pronouncing English initial consonant clusters. A small-scale research study was carried out with six secondary and six university students in Hong Kong, who were asked to perform four speech tasks: the reading of a word list, the description of a…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Interlanguage, Word Lists
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2004
This technical report presents an overview of a reading assessment used by a large school district in the Pacific Northwest. It provides sufficient background information to enable those unfamiliar with the assessment to understand the various subtests that comprise it as well as its development and application in the district for making…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Educational Assessment, School Districts, Item Response Theory