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Davis C. Dyke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Multiple domains develop simultaneously and interact throughout infancy and early childhood. Although relationships between motor and language skills have been examined cross-sectionally during the first three years of life, little is known regarding the individual factors that influence the development of these domains as well as the relationship…
Descriptors: Child Development, Psychomotor Skills, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
Keri M. Madsen; Lindsey A. Peters-Sanders; Elizabeth Spencer Kelley; R. Michael Barker; Yagmur Seven; Wendy L. Olsen; Xigrid Soto-Boykin; Howard Goldstein – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
A cluster randomized design was used to investigate the effects of the "Story Friends" vocabulary curriculum on learning of 84 preschoolers in 24 classrooms who were at risk for language difficulties. Children in the treatment condition received explicit vocabulary instruction of 36 words during small-group storybook listening centers…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Intelligence Tests, Verbal Ability, Vocabulary
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Kornwipa Poonpon; Paiboon Manorom; Wirapong Chansanam – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2023
Automated essay scoring (AES) has become a valuable tool in educational settings, providing efficient and objective evaluations of student essays. However, the majority of AES systems have primarily focused on native English speakers, leaving a critical gap in the evaluation of non-native speakers' writing skills. This research addresses this gap…
Descriptors: Automation, Essays, Scoring, English (Second Language)
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Laufer, Batia; Vaisman, Esther Emma – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Extramural exposure, through activities such as watching TV, gaming, networking, and online reading, has become an important source of vocabulary acquisition in English as a foreign language, particularly when learners' first language (L1) has many cognates with English. Our study examined extramural vocabulary acquisition of 10th-grade L1…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Informal Education
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Daniel R. Isbell; Benjamin Kremmel; Jieun Kim – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 boom in remote administration of language tests, it appears likely that remote administration will be a permanent fixture in the language testing landscape. Accordingly, language test providers, stakeholders, and researchers must grapple with the implications of remote proctoring on valid, fair, and just uses of tests.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Supervision, Language Tests, Culture Fair Tests
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Qian, Jiahe; Li, Shuhong – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
In recent years, harmonic regression models have been applied to implement quality control for educational assessment data consisting of multiple administrations and displaying seasonality. As with other types of regression models, it is imperative that model adequacy checking and model fit be appropriately conducted. However, there has been no…
Descriptors: Models, Regression (Statistics), Language Tests, Quality Control
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Weiler, Brian; Schneider, Phyllis; Guo, Ling-Yu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative contribution of socioeconomic status (SES) on three grammatical measures--finite verb morphology composite (FVMC), percent grammatical utterances (PGU), and clausal density--in children between the ages of 4 and 9 years. Method: Data for this study were from the normative sample in…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Economic Factors, Academic Achievement, Children
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Widdowson, Henry – ELT Journal, 2021
In this contribution, I argue for a radical reappraisal of accepted ideas about how English is taught and tested. I am not alone in questioning the validity of the current orthodoxy. Others have expressed views that correspond or are consistent with the points I make here. What I have sought to do is to synthesize them in the formulation of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Stoeckel, Tim; McLean, Stuart; Nation, Paul – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Two commonly used test types to assess vocabulary knowledge for the purpose of reading are size and levels tests. This article first reviews several frequently stated purposes of such tests (e.g., materials selection, tracking vocabulary growth) and provides a reasoned argument for the precision needed to serve such purposes. Then three sources of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Written Language, Knowledge Level
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Wise, Steven L.; Im, Sukkeun; Lee, Jay – Educational Assessment, 2021
This study investigated test-taking engagement on the Spring 2019 administration of a large-scale state summative assessment. Through the identification of rapid-guessing behavior -- which is a validated indicator of disengagement -- the percentage of Grade 8 test events with meaningful amounts of rapid guessing was 5.5% in mathematics, 6.7% in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Test Results, Guessing (Tests), Summative Evaluation
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Rüsseler, Jascha; Arendt, Denise; Münte, Thomas F.; Mohammadi, Bahram; Boltzmann, Melanie – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Testing language abilities is common in the context of migration. It has been observed that approximately 6.2 million adults in Germany are low literate and that approximately 47% of this group does not have German as their L1. Similar findings have been reported for other modern Western societies with compulsory schooling and a well-developed…
Descriptors: Literacy, Illiteracy, Reading Ability, Brain
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Suzuki, Yuichi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
A subtest of the LLAMA test battery (LLAMA_D) has been proposed as a potential test of implicit learning aptitude. To improve its construct validity, in the present study, the original LLAMA_D (a) instructions for incidental learning were modified, and (b) confidence ratings of test responses and (c) reaction time (RT) measurements were added.…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Aptitude, Construct Validity, Incidental Learning
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Nakata, Tatsuya; Tada, Saori; Mclean, Stuart; Kim, Young Ae – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Research suggests that testing (or retrieval) has the potential to enhance second language (L2) vocabulary learning. Given the positive effects of testing, how L2 vocabulary learning from tests can be optimized is an important question. One way to increase the benefits of testing may be to use cumulative tests, where not only recently studied but…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development, Language Tests
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Arkadiusz Rojczyk; Pavel Sturm; Joanna Przedlacka – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Phonetic imitation is a ubiquitous process in speech production. Speakers have a strong tendency to imitate their interlocutors both in a native and a non-native language. It is especially important in acquiring non-native speech, because it allows forming new sound categories. In the current study we investigated whether and to what extent Polish…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Language Variation, Polish
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Jinghua Qian; Chuanqi Li; Danli Li – Language Awareness, 2025
This paper examines the role of metacognitive awareness in academic writing in a mixed-method study. In addition to validating an instrument assessing metacognitive knowledge and strategies in the context of academic writing, the study uncovered how Chinese multilingual students' metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive strategies, and metacognitive…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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