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Wallace, Craig – ELT Journal, 1997
Questions the removal of a link between reading and writing tasks in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) examinations on two grounds: that this removal is prejudicial to those students whose native cultures may not provide the appropriate schemata to effectively write; and that it is unrealistic in terms of the measurement of…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language)
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Zuckernick, Howard – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Focuses on how second language (L2) readers go about decoding word forms. The article describes a psycholinguistic experiment investigating how advanced Finnish speakers of English as a foreign language pronounced monosyllabic pseudo-words based on common real-word orthographic patterns in English. Results indicate that even advanced L2 readers'…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Finnish, Foreign Countries
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Lightbown, Patsy M.; Spada, Nina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1997
Describes a school in Quebec, in which students enrolled in an intensive English-as-a-Second-Language program (ESL) use English in a variety of communicative interactions inside and outside the ESL classroom. Assessment of students' performance indicates that they achieve higher levels of English than comparable students in other intensive ESL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Nibungco, Jim T.; Williams, Mary Duyckinck – College ESL, 1996
Discusses the design of oral assessment measures to test the language proficiency of incoming Hispanic students into community colleges. The article emphasizes that focusing on oral skills has helped nontraditional English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students realize that they can master English. (nine references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Dialogs (Language), English (Second Language)
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Klein-Braley, Christine – Language Testing, 1997
Compares the empirical performance of C-tests with other representatives of the family of reduced redundancy tests--classical cloze, cloze-elide, multiple-choice cloze--using the Duisburg English Language Test for Advanced Students as the criterion for empirical validity. Findings reveal that the C-Test emerges as the most economical and reliable…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Dictation
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Murphey, Tim – TESOL Journal, 1995
Examines ways to involve language students in the test-making process. Discusses student-generated test items, test goals, outdoor paired vocabulary testing, interactive grading, and peer testing. Argues that student learning is more important than test scores. (nine references) (MDM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Pusack, James P.; Otto, Sue K. – Foreign Language Annals, 1990
An overview of the application of instructional technology to second-language instruction over the past two decades is provided. A number of questions are raised that focus on the role and potential and future objectives of educational technology in foreign-language instruction. (JL)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Educational Technology
Engle, Lilli; Engle, John – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2004
Study abroad professionals have attempted in recent years to bring a statistical objectivity to the evaluation of the American study abroad experience. The complexity of international education is such that it is far from easy to move towards significant, objectively measurable, and comparable outcomes. This article presents a preliminary…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, International Education, Testing, Language Tests
Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline; Tarone, Elaine – 1996
A discussion of second language testing focuses on the need for collaboration among researchers in second language learning, teaching, and testing concerning development of context-appropriate language tests. It is argued that the nature of the proficiency construct in language is not constant, but that different linguistic, functional, and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Evaluation Criteria, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Kubota, Mikio – Bulletin of Chofu Gakuen Women's Junior College, 1996
This paper investigates what types of instruction-feedback combinations may contribute to the learning of English grammar for 120 Japanese university students. Students were given tests on grammaticality judgment and correction, using English ergative verbs in three trials of a post-instruction test. Subjects were divided into six groups according…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Students, English (Second Language), Feedback
Kim, Julie – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
This study examined the ways in which adult, Korean, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners performed the "request" speech act, with particular attention to deviations caused by negative transfer. An oral discourse completion test with six request situations was given to three groups of learners; situations varied in terms of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Graduate Students
Hughes, Arthur – 1989
The book is designed to help language teachers write better tests, taking the view that test construction is an exercise in problem-solving, with every teaching situation presenting a different problem that an understanding of the underlying principles of testing can help solve. Examples are given from testing of English as a Second Language…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Teachers
Willetts, Karen – 1992
Increasingly, technology is incorporated into second language teaching and learning both in and out of classroom situations. The computer alone has many capabilities for enhancing language learning, but when combined with other technologies, the possibilities multiply for information retrieval, interactive audio- and video-assisted learning, use…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Cultural Education
Jacobs, George M. – 1989
A study investigated whether instruction in how to use a dictionary led to improved second language performance and greater dictionary use among English majors (N=54) in a reading and writing course at a Thai university. One of three participating classes was instructed in the use of a monolingual learner's dictionary. A passage correction test…
Descriptors: College Students, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Voss, Bernd – 1985
The ways in which achievement in a foreign language is assessed in German secondary schools are outlined and illustrated with examples from the testing of English. The overall organization of assessment procedures is described, the situations for forms 5-10 and 11-13 are differentiated, and the regulations governing conditions for the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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