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Di Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Retrieval practice has generally been shown to be an effective study strategy. The benefits of retrieval practice, however, have largely been compared to restudying, a passive and ineffective study strategy. Here, I investigated the memory and metamemory effects of practicing retrieval versus generating mnemonics, an active and effective study…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Recall (Psychology), Language Tests, Memory
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McLeod, Melissa – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
Language proficiency testing has long played a role as both facilitator and barrier in global migration. This paper outlines how Canada and other traditional migrant destination countries use English-language proficiency testing for immigration, asylum and resettlement, and citizenship. It identifies commonalities between these three related areas…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigration, Language Proficiency
Hitoshi Mikami – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Facilitating anxiety in second language (L2) learning research has not been thoroughly discussed for both methodological and conceptual reasons. This trend is also evident in the field of L2 reading, where reading anxiety has been viewed as a negative force. This study takes the initial step to explore the nature of facilitating anxiety in L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Weiler, Brian; Schuele, C. Melanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore whether evidence for a bimodal distribution of tense marking, previously documented in clinically referred samples, exists in a population-based sample of kindergarten children from a rural county in Tennessee. Method: A measure of tense marking, the Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (TEGI)…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Morphemes, Language Impairments
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Amenta, Simona; Badan, Linda; Brysbaert, Marc – Applied Linguistics, 2021
In language and second language acquisition research, it is important to have a measure for tracking the proficiency level of participants. Lexical competence is fundamental for communicative purposes in a given language, and vocabulary tests are a reliable measure to assess lexical proficiency. That is why vocabulary tests have a central role in…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Italian, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Muranaka-Vuletich, Hiromi – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Many tertiary language courses have some online components as part of their blended learning initiatives. These online activities could be part of assessments, and online quizzes/tests can be used as preparation for the demanding final written examination. This study attempts to shed some light on the effects of online tests on final examination…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
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Zhang, Haiwei; Roberts, Leah – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
The importance of phonological awareness (PA) for the acquisition of literacy skills has been widely recognized. Across languages, PA is commonly examined using the Oddity test, however, for Chinese-speaking children, Pinyin invented spelling is recommended as being a more powerful tool to assess PA. However, it is still unclear whether this holds…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Phonological Awareness, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Deygers, Bart – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
To date, language testing research has devoted little attention to adult L2 learners with low levels of alphabetic print literacy (LESLLA), even though this population makes up for a substantial proportion of the candidature of language tests used for migration purposes. This special issue focuses on LESLLA learners, shows how literacy impacts…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Printed Materials, Written Language, Language Tests
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Deygers, Bart; Bigelow, Martha; Lo Bianco, Joseph; Nadarajan, Darshini; Tani, Massimiliano – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
This paper constitutes an edited transcript of two online panels, conducted with four scholars whose complementary expertise regarding print literacy and migration offers a thought-provoking and innovative window on the representation of print literacy in applied linguistic research and in migration policy. The panel members are experts on…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Printed Materials, Literacy, Migration
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Ian Morton; C. Melanie Schuele – First Language, 2024
Comprehension of sentences with a center-embedded, object-gapped relative clause (ORC) is challenging for children as well as adults. Mismatching lexical and grammatical features of subject noun phrases (NPs) across the main clause and relative clause has been shown to facilitate comprehension. Adani et al. concluded that children's comprehension…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition
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Haomin Zhang; Jie Sun; Yuting Han; Song Yin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The current study reported an empirical investigation that tested the collective and individual effects of morphological awareness and cognate awareness on Japanese word learning among Chinese learners of Japanese. 131 Chinese learners of Japanese participated in this study. They completed morphological awareness measurements (morpheme…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
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Nailah Al-Sulaihim; Fauzia Abdalla; Abdessattar Mahfoudhi; Saleh Shaalan – First Language, 2024
The objective of this study was to examine the development of derivational morphological structures in the productive language of Kuwaiti Arabic (KA)-speaking children. Participants were 512 typically developing Kuwaiti children aged 3;0 years to 7;11 years (243 boys and 269 girls). Five age groups at 1-year intervals were tested; each group was…
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Acquisition, Mastery Learning, Preschool Children
Lily An; Zach Branson; Luke Miratrix – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Sometimes a treatment, such as receiving a high school diploma, is assigned to students if their scores on two inputs (e.g., math and English test scores) are above established cutoffs. This forms a multidimensional regression discontinuity design (RDD) to analyze the effect of the educational treatment where there are two running variables…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kamal Heidari – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The issues of depth vocabulary knowledge and Willingness to Communicate (henceforth, WTC) are among the most important issues in second language learning. The present study set out to empirically look into the contribution of WTC to depth of vocabulary knowledge in L2 learning. To this end, 88 English L2 learners, divided into two groups in terms…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests
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Khaled Barkaoui – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
This replication study sought to compare the academic achievement of undergraduate students with different score profiles on the TOEFL iBT. Two-step cluster analysis of TOEFL iBT section scores identified six clusters among 2,347 undergraduate students who met the required cutscore on the TOEFL iBT for admission to a Canadian English-medium…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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