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Direct linkIn'nami, Yo; Koizumi, Rie – Language Testing, 2016
We addressed Deville and Chalhoub-Deville's (2006), Schoonen's (2012), and Xi and Mollaun's (2006) call for research into the contextual features that are considered related to person-by-task interactions in the framework of generalizability theory in two ways. First, we quantitatively synthesized the generalizability studies to determine the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Oral Language
Ockey, Gary J.; Koyama, Dennis; Setoguchi, Eric; Sun, Angela – Language Testing, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which performance on the TOEFL iBT speaking section is associated with other indicators of Japanese university students' abilities to communicate orally in an academic English environment and to determine which components of oral ability for these tasks are best assessed by TOEFL iBT. To…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Correlation
Knoch, Ute – Language Testing, 2011
The effectiveness of individualized feedback on rater behavior has been investigated in several previous studies (e.g. Elder, Knoch, Barkhuizen, & von Randow, 2005; Lunt, Morton, & Wigglesworth, 1994; O'Sullivan & Rignall, 2007; Wigglesworth, 1993). The findings of these studies are somewhat inconclusive. However, all of these studies investigated…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Health Occupations, Writing Evaluation, Oral Language
Heilmann, John; Miller, Jon F.; Nockerts, Ann – Language Testing, 2010
Analysis of children's productions of oral narratives provides a rich description of children's oral language skills. However, measures of narrative organization can be directly affected by both developmental and task-based performance constraints which can make a measure insensitive and inappropriate for a particular population and/or sampling…
Descriptors: Scoring, Language Skills, Oral Language, Examiners
Lee, Yong-Won – Language Testing, 2006
A multitask speaking measure consisting of both integrated and independent tasks is expected to be an important component of a new version of the TOEFL test. This study considered two critical issues concerning score dependability of the new speaking measure: How much would the score dependability be impacted by (1) combining scores on different…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Generalizability Theory
Peer reviewedShameem, Nikhat – Language Testing, 1998
Examined the validity of aural and oral self-report scales for determining the Fiji Hindi proficiency of new adolescent immigrants in New Zealand. Participants completed self-reports and performance tests (oral interviews, listening-comprehension tests, and vocabulary tests). Performance tests correlated strongly with self-reports. Respondents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Language Proficiency
