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Applications of Text Analysis Tools for Spoken Response Grading
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Crossley, Scott; McNamara, Danielle – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This study explores the potential for automated indices related to speech delivery, language use, and topic development to model human judgments of TOEFL speaking proficiency in second language (L2) speech samples. For this study, 244 transcribed TOEFL speech samples taken from 244 L2 learners were analyzed using automated indices taken from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Speech Communication
Applications of Text Analysis Tools for Spoken Response Grading
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Crossley, Scott; McNamara, Danielle – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study explores the potential for automated indices related to speech delivery, language use, and topic development to model human judgments of TOEFL speaking proficiency in second language (L2) speech samples. For this study, 244 transcribed TOEFL speech samples taken from 244 L2 learners were analyzed using automated indices taken from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Speech Communication
What's Wrong with Reading Comprehension Tests?
Perkins, Kyle; Parish, Charles – 1988
This document reviews studies that investigated certain inadequacies of English as a Second Language (ESL) reading comprehension tests. The first study examined whether three ESL reading comprehension tests required information principally from the text or from background knowledge. Results indicated that background knowledge differentially…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Multiple Choice Tests, Prior Learning
Measuring ESL Readers' Ability to Apply Reasoning in Reading: A Validity Study of the TOEFL Reading Comprehension Subtest.
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Perkins, Kyle – Journal of Research in Reading, 1988
Reports on an attempt to measure English as a Second Language (ESL) students' ability to apply reasoning in reading, using an experimental test based on Piaget's concrete operations. Suggests that the Test of English as a Second Language (TOEFL) reading comprehension subtest does not measure the ability to apply reasoning in reading; therefore,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods