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Firoozi, Fatemeh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Large-scale standardized ESL tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) are widely used around the world to measure the language proficiency of test-takers and make different decisions based on their scores. Reading comprehension is an integral part of such tests which requires test-takers to read passages and answer a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Standardized Tests
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Reilly, Peter; Sánchez-Rosas, Javier – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The results of second language (L2) tests influence important life events such as university graduation, access to scholarships, and employment opportunities. Curiously, few studies have examined L2 exam-related emotions beyond anxiety. Emotions are important because they influence mediators such as motivation, the use of executive functions, and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Paleczek, Lisa; Seifert, Susanne; Schöfl, Martin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The current study digitalised an assessment instrument of receptive vocabulary knowledge, GraWo-KiGa, for use in Austrian kindergartens. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study looks at 85 kindergarteners in their last year (age M = 5.79 years, 51.8% male, 71.8% L1 German), to find out (a) whether the form of digital assessment employed meets…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Receptive Language, Foreign Countries, Native Language
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Jamsek, Izabela A.; Holt, Rachael Frush; Kronenberger, William G.; Pisonic, David B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of parental sensitivity in language and neurocognitive outcomes in children who are deaf and/or hard of hearing (DHH). Method: Sixty-two parent-child dyads of children with normal hearing (NH) and 64 of children who are DHH (3-8 years) completed parent and child measures of inhibitory…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Young Children, Child Caregivers, Parents
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Cushing, Ian – Language Policy, 2021
Since their introduction by the Conservative government in 2013, primary school children in England have taken a mandated grammar, punctuation and spelling assessment, which places an emphasis on decontextualised, standardised English and the identification of traditional grammatical terminology. Despite some concise criticisms from educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Grammar, Educational Policy
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Qayoom, Nida; Saleem, Mohammad; Mansoor, Mozaffar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Listening and speaking are active language skills and need special attention in English language pedagogy, especially in ESL/EFL contexts. English in India is taught as a second language in almost all the states, and the secondary education boards stipulate the teaching of all the four language skills as the objective of teaching English, yet the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Skills
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Liu, Yuying; Mishan, Freda; Chambers, Angela – Language Learning Journal, 2021
While task-based language teaching (TBLT) is a teaching methodology favoured by the Chinese Ministry of Education, it has not been sufficiently researched to be validated empirically in practice in the EFL classroom. Few studies have investigated teachers' responses to TBLT in the Chinese college English context. This research contributes to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sherman, Janet Cohen; Henderson, Charles R.; Flynn, Suzanne; Gair, James W.; Lust, Barbara – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This research investigated the nature of cognitive decline in prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD), particularly in mild cognitive impairment, amnestic type (aMCI). We assessed language in aMCI as compared with healthy aging (HA) and healthy young (HY) with new psycholinguistic assessment of complex sentences, and we tested the degree to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Psycholinguistics, Phrase Structure, Alzheimers Disease
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Bateson, Gordon – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
As a result of the Japanese Ministry of Education's recent edict that students' written and spoken English should be assessed in university entrance exams, there is an urgent need for tools to help teachers and students prepare for these exams. Although some commercial tools already exist, they are generally expensive and inflexible. To address…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Internet, Writing Tests
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Hooft, Hannelore; Schiepers, Mariet; Vandommele, Goedele – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Many migrants have had few opportunities to develop functional literacy skills, even in their L1. Even so, migration and integration policies in Western host societies often assume literacy skills and fail to consider accommodations for low-literate migrants. Valid, reliable instruments to identify low-literate migrants and policy-oriented…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Tests, Immigrants, Native Language
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Giraldo, Frank – HOW, 2021
At some point, language teachers need to be engaged in language assessment in their profession. Because language assessment is such a primary task for teachers, the field of language testing is encouraging research around the knowledge, skills, and principles that are foundational for sound assessment. In this paper, I provide a definition of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
De Angelis, Gessica – Multilingual Matters, 2021
The field of multilingual testing and assessment has grown rapidly in recent years due to the widespread need to integrate immigrant populations into mainstream education and to provide fair and equitable forms of assessment for all students. However, a continuing emphasis on bilingual students has created a significant gap in testing and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Tests, Testing, Immigrants
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
The present work seeks to establish a comparison between two different and distant evaluation tools applied to the Dominican student population in order to measure the efficiency of our educational system in the recent years, one of them measured the quality of Dominican education in three areas (the PISA Test), whereas the other tested the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Student Evaluation, International Assessment
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F. Scott Walters – Educational Linguistics, 2021
Conversation analysis (CA) has exerted influence both on second language (L2) classroom pedagogy (e.g., Barraja-Rohan A, Pritchard R, Beyond talk: a course in communication and conversation skills for intermediate adult learners of English. Western Metropolitan Institute of TAFE, Melbourne, 1997; Wong J, Waring HZ, Conversation analysis and second…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Huseyin Uysal – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Long-term English learners (LTELs) are students who were identified as English learners (EL) when they entered U.S. schools and continue to be ELs for 5 or more years. Although many factors influence LTEL status, student performance on standardized language and achievement tests particularly shape their trajectory through school. Yet, little is…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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