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Direct linkRoemer, Ann E. – College and University, 2020
College and university admissions officers are the gatekeepers who decide which individuals may join the "country club" of higher education. As such, the decisions they make have a significant impact on the lives of individuals, especially those who are willing to travel across the globe and risk living in an unfamiliar country in order…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cutting Scores
Download full textMacDonald, Jennifer J. – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) standardized English language proficiency (ELP) exam is widely accepted proof of ELP at Canadian universities. The majority of Canadian universities set very similar IELTS cut scores for admission; however, these differ from the IELTS-recommended minimum cut scores. The use of the IELTS…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Yu, Guoxing – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This article reports the lexical diversity of summaries written by experts and test takers in an empirical study and then interrogates the (in)congruity between the conceptualisations of "summary" and "summarize" in the literature of educational research and the operationalization of summarization tasks in three international…
Descriptors: Documentation, Writing Tests, Language Usage, Language Tests
Murray, Neil; Nallaya, Shashi – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
As the number of students entering higher education continues to increase, many English-medium universities have been looking carefully at how to more effectively ensure that those for whom English is not a first language have the opportunity to develop the academic literacies they require to successfully engage with and complete their studies as…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Student Diversity, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
