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Ahmed Kamal Junina; Pat Strauss; Jay K. Wood; Lynn Grant – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
The challenges facing non-native English-speaking students (NNESSs) in adapting to the conventions of academic writing at the tertiary level in English-medium institutions have been widely canvassed in scholarly research. Nonetheless, there does not appear to be a great deal of research that investigates the experiences of Arabic-speaking students…
Descriptors: Arabic, Student Experience, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Huang, Jing; Chen, Gaowei – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
This research investigates the effects of rater experience on performance ratings in language testing using a systematic review of studies published from 1985 to 2017. Based on a comprehensive literature search of 14 databases, we identified sixteen relevant papers. With these we conducted a narrative review to conceptualize a theoretical…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Experience, Evaluators, Performance Based Assessment
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Abdelkareem Ali Abdelnaeim Mehany; Asmaa Ghanem Gheith – Online Submission, 2024
The present study attempted to examine the effect of using the connectivist approach on developing secondary-stage students' cross-cultural awareness and translation performance. The study comprised thirty-two first-year secondary stage students enrolled in El-Jalawea Institute, Sohag Governorate. The study adopted the quasi-experimental design.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dongil Shin – Language Testing, 2024
This paper addresses the intersection of testing and policy, situating test-driven impact and validation within the context of policy-led educational reform in Korea. I will briefly review the existing validation models. Then, arguing for an expansion of the conventional conceptualization of consequential validity research, I use Fairclough's…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis, Test Validity, Educational Change
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Amber Dudley; Emma Marsden; Giulia Bovolenta – Language Testing, 2024
Vocabulary knowledge strongly predicts second language reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Yet, few tests have been developed to assess vocabulary knowledge in French. The primary aim of this pilot study was to design and initially validate the Context-Aligned Two Thousand Test (CA-TTT), following open research practices. The CA-TTT is a…
Descriptors: French, Vocabulary Development, Secondary School Students, Language Tests
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S. M. Akramul Kabir – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The current National Curriculum 2012 for English (VI- X) in Bangladesh incorporates both listening and speaking skills for its English education. Textbooks have also been designed in accordance with the policy which is set by the National Curriculum and Textbook Broad (NCTB). The English textbook, titled "English for Today" (EfT), was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, National Curriculum
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Suhad Sonbul; Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Very few studies have investigated second language (L2) knowledge of word parts. The present study was set to measure L2 recognition of 35 English prefixes and the factors that might predict scores. The form and meaning sections of Sasao and Webb's Word Part Levels Test were administered to 152 Arabic learners of English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Lê Th? Thu Trang; Marlizayati Johari; Hardimah Said – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Online assessment is not new to teachers, students and educators worldwide as internet and personal computers have dominated the globe in late 20th and early 21st. centuries. Nonetheless, it was during COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated the development of online assessment as an alternative method to the traditional assessment. This study aims at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Teaching Methods
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Eka Ariyati; Herawati Susilo; Hadi Suwono; Fatchur Rohman – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
The perceptions of students who study environmental science related to pollution are certainly different because they are influenced by various circumstances. These circumstances, among others, depend on what they observe around them and their prior knowledge. This study aimed to determine the concept of pollution according to the cognitive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Prior Learning, Cognitive Structures
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Brian Strong; Paul Leeming – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in how to maximize learners' retention of multiword expressions. One technique that has been shown to be highly effective is the use of exercises such as those found in mainstream English as a second language textbooks. In the present study, we investigated how the execution of a gap-fill…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Phrase Structure, Verbs
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Mehdi Mehranirad; Nahid Basafa; Reza Zabihi – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The present study aimed to examine the effect of activity engagement, age, language proficiency, and time elapse on children's response accuracy to adult's questions. A total of 70, 3- to 6-year-old children participated in the study, engaging in a story-telling activity, a proficiency test, and two interviews. Additionally, 57 of these children…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Language Proficiency, Age Differences, Reaction Time
Rosalie Grant – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2024
Over a 6-year period, a sociolinguistic and sociocultural project was undertaken by Alaska Native expert educators and linguists (aka the Yup'ik Expert Group) from the Yup'ik community in the Lower Kuskokwim School District, Central Alaska. The native experts developed their own culturally sustainable, valid, and reliable Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Sustainability, Test Validity, Language Tests
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Jingwen Wang; Ying Zheng; Yi Zou – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic), a high-stakes English language proficiency test, underwent substantial revisions in 2021. The test duration was reduced from 3 h to 2 h by reducing specific task numbers and sections. This study investigates the impact of these changes on teachers' perceptions and teaching practices, areas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Siordia, Celestina; Kim, Kathy MinHye – TESOL Journal, 2022
Latinx students make up 77.8% of the English learner (EL) population in the United States (Department of Education, 2017). However, there is a subpopulation of Latinx ELs who are: English-dominant, born in the United States, and identified as long-term English learner (LTEL). ELs who are not reclassified after 6 or 7 years are categorized as LTEL…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Standardized Tests
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Jiang, Jiahong – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2022
Since the introduction of flipped learning, it has drawn much attention and enjoyed increasing popularity. This study attempts to investigate Chinese English majors' metacognitive strategy use in a flipped environment and the influencing factors of metacognitive strategy use. 35 subjects were asked to study the assigned online course video…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Metacognition, Second Language Learning
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