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Direct linkCarmit Altman; Sveta Fichman; Noy Perry; Pola Osher; Joel Walters – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: We examined the role of narrative microstructure (production of words and sentences) and narrative macrostructure (organization of events) in the use of internal state terms (ISTs) in narratives of bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in their school language (SL). Method: Fifty-eight Russian-Hebrew bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Sarac, Merve; Loken, Eric – International Journal of Testing, 2023
This study is an exploratory analysis of examinee behavior in a large-scale language proficiency test. Despite a number-right scoring system with no penalty for guessing, we found that 16% of examinees omitted at least one answer and that women were more likely than men to omit answers. Item-response theory analyses treating the omitted responses…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
McPherson, Douglas – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how and why Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) has developed a system aiming to effectively place students in freshman and developmental English programs. The placement system includes: triangulating data from external test scores, with scores from a panel-marked hand-written essay (HWE),…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Educational Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
