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Direct linkSeyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini; Mahtab Janfada; Leila Iranmanesh – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Language tests, including international high-stakes English proficiency tests widely used around the world, are to be viewed as ideological constructs connected with power relations and center-periphery demarcations at different social levels. In this paper, we examine the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as an instance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Okim Kang; Maria Kostromitina; Xun Yan; Ron I. Thomson; Talia Isaacs – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
There has been much debate in assessment research about the inclusion of Global English accents in high-stakes listening tests. This study explored test-takers' attitudes toward the inclusion of different English accents in the Duolingo English Test (DET) 2021 test version and their associations with listening test scores. One hundred sixty…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software
