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Wadden, Paul; Hilke, Robert; Hamp-Lyons, Liz – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Provides a form of argumentative dialectic to Liz Hamp-Lyons's forum commentary published in an earlier issue of this journal, "Ethical Test Preparation Practice: The Case of TOEFL." Hamp-Lyons responds to the comments.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Ethics, Second Language Instruction, Test Construction
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Peirce, Bonny Norton – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
The development of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is described based on data from a case study of a reading test. The theory of genre proposed by Kress is also discussed, along with the need for the TOEFL-2000 test development team at the Educational Testing Service to address the washback effect of the test. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction, Standardized Tests
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Taylor, Carol; Eignor, David; Jamieson, Joan – TESOL Quarterly, 2000
Provides empirical data on the extent to which English language learners around the world actually use computers. Results of a survey of takers of the Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) throughout the world indicated that a high percentage had used computers. This high overall use is tempered by the variation found among regions and by…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Trends, English (Second Language)
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Biber, Douglas; Conrad, Susan; Reppen, Randi; Byrd, Pat; Helt, Marie – TESOL Quarterly, 2002
Examines English speaking and writing in the university to provide descriptions of language that are needed to increase the correspondence between the language appearing on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and what students are exposed to at North American universities. Presents a corpus of 2.7 million words gathered from spoken…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Tests