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Chan, Jessica; Adlof, Suzanne M.; Duff, Dawna; Mitchell, Alexis; Ragunathan, Maalavika; Ehrhorn, Anna M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parent concerns about children's oral language, reading, and related skills and their children's performance on standardized assessments of language and reading, with a particular focus on whether those relationships differed between children recruited for in-school versus…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Reading Ability, Oral Language, Parents
Nathan Michael Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
International students have comprised a steadily growing demographic in America's colleges and universities for the past seventy-five years. Over the many years and decades, the proportion of international students whose first language is not English has also increased. Subsequently, American higher education has come to rely on an important…
Descriptors: International Education, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lin, You-Min; Y. Chen, Michelle – Language Testing, 2020
This study examined the writing score and writing feature changes of 562 repeat test takers who took the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program--General (CELPIP--General) test at least three times, with a short (30-40 day) interval between the first and second attempts and a longer (90-180 day) interval between the first and third…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Standardized Tests, Language Proficiency, Writing Tests
Abdulhamid, Nwara; Fox, Janna – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This study examined seven Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) teachers' accounts of current Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA) practices, elicited through semi-structured interviews, in order to explore "washback" -- the effects of PBLA on teaching and learning. Portfolios are primarily useful as formative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, English Language Learners, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Bennett, Randy E.; Zhang, Mo; Deane, Paul; van Rijn, Peter W. – Educational Assessment, 2020
We evaluate how higher- vs. lower-scoring middle-school students differ in their composition processes when writing persuasive essays from source materials. We examined differences on four individual process features--time taken before beginning to write, typing speed, total time spent, and number of words started. Next, we examined differences…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Processes, Essays, Persuasive Discourse
Matov, Jessica; Mensah, Fiona; Cook, Fallon; Reilly, Sheena; Dowell, Richard – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: There is no sufficiently accurate short-language measure that could be used by speech-language pathologists, teachers or paraprofessionals to screen young school-aged children to identify those requiring in-depth language evaluations. This may be due to poor development of the available measures, which have omitted crucial test…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Screening Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
Yan, Xun; Staples, Shelley – Language Testing, 2020
The argument-based approach to validity (Kane, 2013) focuses on two steps: (1) making claims about the proposed interpretation and use of test scores as a coherent, interpretive argument; and (2) evaluating those claims based on theoretical and empirical evidence related to test performances and scores. This paper discusses the role of…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Test Validity
Chinkina, Maria; Ruiz, Simón; Meurers, Detmar – ReCALL, 2020
How can state-of-the-art computational linguistic technology reduce the workload and increase the efficiency of language teachers? To address this question, we combine insights from research in second language acquisition and computational linguistics to automatically generate text-based questions to a given text. The questions are designed to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Overton, Courtney; Baron, Taylor; Pearson, Barbara Zurer; Ratner, Nan Bernstein – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Spoken language sample analysis (LSA) is widely considered to be a critical component of assessment for child language disorders. It is our best window into a preschool child's everyday expressive communicative skills. However, historically, the process can be cumbersome, and reference values against which LSA findings can be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Black Dialects, Preschool Children, Oral Language
Chen, Hui-Ju – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
This study investigated preschoolers' knowledge of Chinese characters by testing character structures on four levels: radical (character components), whole characters, characters in words and characters in sentences. A total of 107 preschool children between the ages of three and six from four nursery schools in Taiwan participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Preschool Children, Orthographic Symbols, Sentences
Alaamer, Reem Aamer – English Language Teaching, 2021
There is a growing need for standardized oral assessment rubrics in learning institutions. This is linked to the growing number of ESL learners not only in Saudi Arabia but other parts of the world. To assess the need to use standardized oral assessment rubrics, this particular study explores various peer reviewed articles that support the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Scoring Rubrics
Lin, Chi-Jen; Mubarok, Husni – Educational Technology & Society, 2021
One of the biggest challenges for EFL (English as Foreign Language) students to learn English is the lack of practicing environments. Although language researchers have attempted to conduct flipped classrooms to increase the practicing time in class, EFL students generally have difficulties interacting with peers and teachers in English in class.…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Cognitive Mapping, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Mediated Communication
Jawhar, Sabria; Al Makoshi, Manal; Alhawsawi, Sajjadllah; Alkushi, Abdulmohsen – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This paper aims to validate the English Language Entrance Test for King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science (hereafter KSAU-ET). It supports the argument regarding using specially designed in-house entrance tests at health universities by showcasing the test's development, administration, and validation process. It presents a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Li, Minzi; Zhang, Xian – Language Testing, 2021
This meta-analysis explores the correlation between self-assessment (SA) and language performance. Sixty-seven studies with 97 independent samples involving more than 68,500 participants were included in our analysis. It was found that the overall correlation between SA and language performance was 0.466 (p < 0.01). Moderator analysis was…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Likert Scales, Research Reports
Eslami, Mehrnoosh; Sahragard, Rahman – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
The present research investigates the effect of self-regulatory strategy instruction on Iranian EFL learners' metadiscoursal writing abilities. To this purpose, 50 Iranian EFL intermediate learners were all native speakers of the Persian language learning the English language in an institute were selected via convenience random sampling.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing Skills