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Jones, Linda C.; Jennings, Freddie J. – CALICO Journal, 2022
This current study examined the effects of full captions (n = 37), keyword captions (n = 38), and no captions (n = 37) on students' ability to gain pictorial knowledge from a 5 minutes and 52 seconds French language video. After completing a pre-vocabulary recognition test to determine the level of equality between groups, students watched the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Captions, Video Technology, Second Language Learning
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Varga, Szilvia; Pásztor, Attila; Stekács, János – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
The aims of the study are to construct an online instrument to assess different aspects of morphological awareness and to examine its development and its relation to reading comprehension in grades 2-4 in Hungarian children. Altogether, 4134 students were tested. The online test evaluated inflectional, derivational, and compound morphological…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Metalinguistics
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Tarlani-Aliabadi, Hasan; Tazik, Khalil; Azizi, Zeinab – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Though the empirical findings of the past studies in the literature have offered strong support to the significant role of language knowledge and background knowledge in reading comprehension, this issue has not been explored with regard to specific purposes tests in the Iranian higher education context. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Readability Formulas, Readability, Prior Learning
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Nguyen, Long Quoc; Le, Ha Van – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Achieving a sufficient IELTS band score for academic purposes has been a major goal of many L2 learners around the world, especially those in Asia. However, IELTS writing scores were consistently reported to be the lowest when compared to the scores in speaking, reading, and listening. Despite a growing body of research in IELTS writing, little…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Writing Tests
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Sata, Mehmet; Karakaya, Ismail – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
In the process of measuring and assessing high-level cognitive skills, interference of rater errors in measurements brings about a constant concern and low objectivity. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of rater training on rater errors in the process of assessing individual performance. The study was conducted with a…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Training, Comparative Analysis, Academic Language
Qi Zheng – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Language is inherently variable, and learner language is particularly variable. The variationist paradigm considers learner language a heterogeneously variable yet inherently rule-governed system. Specifically, learners' alternation between native-like and nonnative-like variants of a variable or invariable target native speaker (NS) form…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
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Yan, Xun; Lei, Yuyun; Shih, Chilin – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This two-phased study explored a corpus-driven, curriculum-based approach to assessing proficiency development of Mandarin Chinese in US universities. In Phase I, we developed an elicited imitation (EI) test based on the Chinese curriculum at a large US university. This test demonstrated higher psychometric qualities to (1) place L2 learners into…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Mandarin Chinese, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Proficiency
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Wang, Peiyu; Coetzee, Karen; Strachan, Andrea; Monteiro, Sandra; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
Internationally educated nurses' (IENs) English language proficiency is critical to professional licensure as communication is a key competency for safe practice. The Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) is Canada's only Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) referenced examination used in the context of healthcare…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Nurses
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Cohen, Dale J.; Ballman, Alesha; Rijmen, Frank; Cohen, Jon – Applied Measurement in Education, 2020
Computer-based, pop-up glossaries are perhaps the most promising accommodation aimed at mitigating the influence of linguistic structure and cultural bias on the performance of English Learner (EL) students on statewide assessments. To date, there is no established procedure for identifying the words that require a glossary for EL students that is…
Descriptors: Glossaries, Testing Accommodations, English Language Learners, Computer Assisted Testing
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Gandini, Elena A. M.; Horák, Tania – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This contribution reports on the developing and piloting of a computer-based version of the test of English as a foreign language produced by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), where it is currently used for the admission of international students and the subsequent evaluation of their language progress. Among other benefits,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Kuang, Qi – English Language Teaching, 2020
Scholars have long recognized the Washback effect of English language tests on English teaching inside the classroom. However, the lack of scholarly reports in this area is also nonnegligible. Therefore, the present study intends to review some empirical researches that focus on the washback of some English language tests on different aspects of…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Marshall, Neil; Shaw, Kirsten; Hunter, Jodie; Jones, Ian – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
There is growing interest in using comparative judgement to assess student work as an alternative to traditional marking. Comparative judgement requires no rubrics and is instead grounded in experts making pairwise judgements about the relative 'quality' of students' work according to a high level criterion. The resulting decision data are fitted…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Park, Sunyoung; Kwak, Eun-Joo; Tak, Jin-young; Tate, Todd – Cogent Education, 2020
Many universities in Korea have implemented teaching TOEIC based courses in their core curriculums as a result of the increased popularity of the TOEIC test. With the assumption that reading and listening scores are inter-related with each other, a focus of this study is to find the distribution patterns of the reading comprehension (RC) and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Scores
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Larsson, Maria; Olin-Scheller, Christina – Curriculum Journal, 2020
This study examines the washback effects of a national test in Swedish at upper secondary schools. The test consists of three parts--reading, writing and speaking--and this study specifically focuses on the washback effects in relation to Stephen Ball's theory of policy enactment. The study draws on qualitative data from a total of 21 interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing Problems, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
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Drackert, Anastasia; Timukova, Anna – Language Testing, 2020
In view of the ubiquitous increase in the use of C-tests, which are almost unanimously believed to measure general language proficiency, this study investigates whether the aspects of language proficiency tapped into by the C-test format are the same when the test is taken by a learner population other than that of foreign language learners.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Tests, Russian, Second Language Learning
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