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Zhang, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper reviews a total of 20 empirical research studies concerning parents' behavior under the context of high-stakes language assessment, aiming to reveal the impact of the assessment on parents' behavior. The results show that (1) parents are typically involved in high-stakes language assessment process; (2) their involvement practice…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, Parent Child Relationship
Ockey, Gary J. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid innovation among language assessment developers who had to adapt their testing processes to address various restrictions from governments and institutions. This overview introduces some of the challenges and opportunities test developers grappled with during this period as well as introduces the six commentaries…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Placement Tests, Barriers
Indiana Department of Education, 2021
The "2020-2021 WIDA Assessment Guidance" provides information on the following 14 topics: (1) English Language Proficiency Requirements; (2) WIDA Assessments in Grades K-12; (3) WIDA ACCESS Annual Assessments Test Window; (4) Participation Requirements; (5) Indiana English Learner Entrance and Exit Criteria; (6) Scheduling and Timing…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Test Results
Chinda, Bordin; Cotter, Matthew; Ebrey, Matthew; Hinkelman, Don; Lambert, Peter; Miller, Annie – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This qualitative study investigated the washback of performance-based assessment used by three English language teachers in Hokkaido, Japan, each of whom implemented their own course-specific assessments. The study employed qualitative research of an in-depth interview with 15 students and a self-reflective method from 3 teachers. Teachers…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing Problems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ozer, Omer; Badem, Nebahat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study examines the impact of EFL learners' learning experiences in a virtual classroom on their academic motivation and achievement. It also explores students' reasons for changes in their motivations and their perspectives on learning a foreign language online. The study used the explanatory, sequential mixed-methods design. A total of 144…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Etienne, Corinne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article explores French L1 speakers' attitudes toward French L2 speakers' negation use. Negation in prescriptive grammars calls for a pre-verbal ne and a post-verbal element like "pas." Although orally "ne" deletion is frequent, it is rarely or never taught. One common, albeit meagerly supported, explanation is that L1…
Descriptors: Native Language, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ho, Pok Jing – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
This study examines the range of cognitive processes assessed in the English language reading literacy test as part of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE), the secondary school exit test in Hong Kong. Prior studies have suggested that higher order cognitive processes are often undermined in high-stakes tests and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Test Items, Cognitive Processes
Stewart, Gail; Strachan, Andrea – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Since its implementation in 2004, the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) has been accepted as evidence of language ability for licensure of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in Canada. This article focuses on the complexities of sustaining an occupation-specific assessment over time. The authors reference the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English for Special Purposes, Benchmarking, Nurses
Atmojo, Arief Eko Priyo – Journal of English Teaching, 2022
This study tries to shed light on what makes the English teacher's proficiency excellent and how these factors help the English teacher achieve excellent proficiency. One female English teacher from a private secondary school participated in this study. Her excellent English proficiency is proven by some proficiency test certificates such as TOEFL…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cheng, Yonghong; Wang, Yan; Chen, Wei – Applied Language Learning, 2022
Language instruction at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC), as it does at colleges and universities, focuses on developing linguistic competence. There is no textbook or teaching materials that explicitly and systematically teach students the pragmatic knowledge of the target language. Such knowledge is either…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Khodabandeh, Farzaneh – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
During the past decade, Virtual reality (VR)-enhanced education has been adopted as a pedagogically new learning approach to smooth the learning progress. With the rise of VR-enhanced activities, investigating the effect of personality types of EFL learners on their writing performance to use VR-based instruction for learning may be a crucial…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personality Traits
Davidson, Simon – Language Testing, 2022
This paper investigates what matters to medical domain experts when setting standards on a language for specific purposes (LSP) English proficiency test: the Occupational English Test's (OET) writing sub-test. The study explores what standard-setting participants value when making performance judgements about test candidates' writing responses,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Writing Tests, Standard Setting, Health Personnel
Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Knoph, Rebecca; Hjetland, Hanne Naess; Rogde, Kristin; Lawrence, Joshua Fahey; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, and instruction. This skill is vital for young children and has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, and participation in society. There is a lack of measures of young children's listening comprehension skills.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Listening Comprehension, Language Acquisition
Kim, Nahee – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
Professor Glenn Fulcher's research has influenced language testing and assessment in two ways: in proposing a new understanding of data-driven speaking test design, and in drawing attention to the core identity of language testers. The former has had a powerful impact on practical speaking testing and assessment. The latter has asked a very…
Descriptors: Cheating, Test Preparation, Language Tests, Test Construction
Cai, Yuyang; Chen, Huilin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Thinking skills play a critical role in determining language performance. Recent advancement in cognitive diagnostic modelling (CDM) provides a powerful tool for obtaining fine-grained information regarding these thinking skills during reading. Studies are scant, however, exploring the relations between thinking skills and language performance,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Reading Processes