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Haug, Tobias; Batty, Aaron Olaf; Venetz, Martin; Notter, Christa; Girard-Groeber, Simone; Knoch, Ute; Audeoud, Mireille – Language Testing, 2020
In this study we seek evidence of validity according to the socio-cognitive framework (Weir, 2005) for a new sentence repetition test (SRT) for young Deaf L1 Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) users. SRTs have been developed for various purposes for both spoken and sign languages to assess language development in children. In order to address the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Sentences, Repetition
van Steensel, Roel; Oostdam, Ron; van Gelderen, Amos – Language Testing, 2013
On the basis of a validation study of a new test for assessing low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension skills--the SALT-reading--we analyzed two issues relevant to the field of reading test development. Using the test results of 200 seventh graders, we examined the possibility of identifying reading comprehension subskills and the effects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Low Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
McCarthy, Philip M.; Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2007
A reliable index of lexical diversity (LD) has remained stubbornly elusive for over 60 years. Meanwhile, researchers in fields as varied as "stylistics," "neuropathology," "language acquisition," and even "forensics" continue to use flawed LD indices--often ignorant that their results are questionable and in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Adolescents