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ShayesteFar, Parvaneh – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
Research on test change often documents high-stakes English test impact on English language learning, whereas evidence for simultaneous impact on affective predictors of learning is still missing. We tested a theoretical model positing that changing high-stake English tests (English Language Requirements for University Entrance, in this study)…
Descriptors: Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, English Language Learners, Student Attitudes
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Farley, Kristin S.; Piasta, Shayne B. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2020
In the present study, we examined relations between children's language and literacy learning opportunities, initial skills, and maternal education. We assessed children's (n = 1,751 in 461 early childhood classrooms) initial language and literacy skills using standardized measures, and caregivers reported maternal education via questionnaires. We…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Mothers, Educational Attainment
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Finn, Bridgid; Arslan, Burcu; Walsh, Matthew – Applied Measurement in Education, 2020
To score an essay response, raters draw on previously trained skills and knowledge about the underlying rubric and score criterion. Cognitive processes such as remembering, forgetting, and skill decay likely influence rater performance. To investigate how forgetting influences scoring, we evaluated raters' scoring accuracy on TOEFL and GRE essays.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Essay Tests, Evaluators, Cognitive Processes
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Wang, Zhuo; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Yin, Zhaoyi; Ma, Yongjun – Educational Technology & Society, 2020
Vocabulary mastery is critical to English as Foreign Language students. Mobile technologies enable students to learn vocabulary without space and time limitations. However, existing mobile-assisted vocabulary learning research often employed teacher-directed activities that increased instructors' workload, undermined student motivation or targeted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Electronic Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Enayat, Mostafa Janebi; Amirian, Seyed Mohammad Reza – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
The present study investigated the association between vocabulary size and depth of Iranian EFL learners at different language proficiency levels. Additionally, the extent that this relationship could be different for low-and high-word-frequency bands was probed. In so doing, the Word Associates Test (WAT), the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT), the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cortez, Mariéle Diniz; dos Santos, Letícia; Quintal, Ana Elisa; Silveira, Marcelo V.; de Rose, Julio C. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
We evaluated the effects of tact and listener instruction on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbal relations with 6 typically developing Brazilian children, using an adapted alternating treatment design with pretest and posttest probes. In listener instruction, participants selected pictures that corresponded to spoken foreign-language words.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pretests Posttests
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Noviyenty, Leffi; Astuti, Mutiara; Fakhruddin; Morganna, Ruly – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
Morphological awareness is regarded as a significant predictor of vocabulary acquisition, reading comprehension, and the advancement of various literary competences. Thus, the present study sought to investigate tertiary EFL students' morphological awareness of English in terms of morphological identification and morphological structure awareness.…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Giraldo, Frank – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
The language assessment literacy of English language teachers has been one of the topics of discussion in the language testing field. In this article, I focus on the need to expand research constructs and methodologies to understand, in depth, the language assessment literacy for these key players in language assessment. I first explain the need…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Indiana Department of Education, 2020
The "2019-2020 WIDA Assessment Guidance" provides information on the following 10 topics: (1) English Language Proficiency Requirements; (2) WIDA Assessments in Grades K-12; (3) ACCESS Annual Assessments Testing Window; (4) Indiana English Learner Entrance and Exit Criteria; (5) Test Results and Reporting; (6) User Roles and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Test Results
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Zhao, Yijun; Xu, Qiangwen; Chen, Ming; Weiss, Gary M. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
Predicting student success in a data science degree program is a challenging task due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the diverse backgrounds of the students, and an incomplete understanding of the precise skills that are most critical to success. In this study, the applicant's future academic performance in a Master of Data Science…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, Data Analysis, Masters Programs, Admission Criteria
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Bulan, Nurdan; Kasapoglu, Koray – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This research aims to investigate the impact of total physical response-storytelling (TPRS) and grammar-translation (G-T) methods on the elementary school third grade students' acquisition of English vocabulary and the views of elementary school third grade students on these methods. In this embedded mixed-methods study, the data were collected…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rezai, Afsheen; Alibakhshi, Gudarz; Farokhipour, Sajjad; Miri, Mowla – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
This study aims to disclose the Iranian university teachers' perceptions of the fundamentals of language assessment literacy (LAL). To this aim, using purposive sampling, eighteen university teachers from two Iranian universities were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Their viewpoints were audio-recorded, transcribed, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phenomenology, Alternative Assessment, Testing Problems
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Mujiono; Herawati, Siane – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This study examined E-Learning-based sociolinguistic instruction's effectiveness of EFL university students' sociolinguistic competence. This study applied a quasi-experimental method with the Non-Equivalent Control Group Design. The participants of this study were 76 students purposefully recruited from a University in Malang, Indonesia. They…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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López Vélez, Jean Carlos; Villafuerte Holguin, Jhonny Saulo – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This work aims to improve the practices of English as a foreign language of early children through the articulation of Neuroeducation and the Total Physical Response methodology. This work subscribes to the postmodern paradigm and the mixed educational research approach. The participants were thirty-five students from the second grade of primary…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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McLean, Stuart; Stoeckel, Tim – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
In response to McLean (2021), Laufer (2021) makes three claims which are either not supported by research or are based on studies with important limitations. First is that a vocabulary size, instead of a level, can be used to match learners with lexically appropriate materials despite test creators and research not supporting this. Second is that…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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