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Direct linkZhang, Ying; Elder, Catherine – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
This study investigates the impact of raters' language background on their judgements of the speaking performance in the College English Test-Spoken English Test (CET-SET) of China, by comparing the rating patterns of non-native English-speaking (NNES) teacher raters, who are currently employed to assess performance on the CET-SET, with those of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Native Speakers, English
Peer reviewedElder, Catherine; McNamara, Tim; Congdon, Peter – Journal of Applied Measurement, 2003
Used Rasch analytic procedures to study item bias or differential item functioning in both dichotomous and scalar items on a test of English for academic purposes. Results for 139 college students on a pilot English language test model the approach and illustrate the measurement challenges posed by a diagnostic instrument to measure English…
Descriptors: College Students, Diagnostic Tests, English, Higher Education
Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Elder, Catherine – Language Teaching Research, 2005
This article examines the language choices made by native-speaker teachers of Japanese, Korean, German and French in foreign language (FL) classrooms in New Zealand secondary schools. It explores these teachers' patterns of alternation between English, the majority language, and the TL, using both AS-units (Analysis of Speech units), devised by…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary Schools, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
