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Nita Kaniadewi – Journal of English Teaching, 2023
This research was conducted to find the urgency of implementing the mandatory TOEFL test policy. This policy requires students who will take the final examination to have a TOEFL certificate with a minimum score of 450. This research used a qualitative research method with 114 students as the sample. Furthermore, triangulation was utilized by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Scores
Nathan Michael Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
International students have comprised a steadily growing demographic in America's colleges and universities for the past seventy-five years. Over the many years and decades, the proportion of international students whose first language is not English has also increased. Subsequently, American higher education has come to rely on an important…
Descriptors: International Education, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Öztekin, Elifcan; Erçetin, Gülcan – International Journal of Listening, 2022
Metacognitive awareness of listening strategies has a supporting role in explaining L2 listening comprehension. Although metacognitive awareness is language-independent, language proficiency may determine whether learners can utilize such a cognitive resource during multiple language development. The current study explores the listening strategy…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension
Soohye Yeom – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the wide introduction of English-medium instruction (EMI) to higher education institutions throughout East Asian countries, many East Asian universities are using English proficiency tests that were not originally designed for this context to make admissions and placement decisions. To support the use of these tests in this new EMI context,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
Rodrigo A. Rodríguez-Fuentes; David O'Neil – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Given recent study abroad trends, Latin America (LATAM) offers untapped potential to contribute to U.S. campus internationalization. To diversify student populations and increase enrollment from LATAM, stakeholders should consider the language, academic, and cultural experiences of LATAM students admitted to U.S. graduate schools. This study…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Latin Americans, International Education, Graduate Students
Grain, Hayder Mohammed Jawad Salih; Al-gburi, Ghufran; Suleiman, Osama Wael; Alghazali, Tawfeeq; Kadhim, Ahmed Jalil; Hassan, Aalaa Yaseen; Dawood, Imad Ibrahim – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The ability of international graduates to grasp a foreign language has become increasingly important as the demand for English-speaking workers has grown worldwide. To this end, several strategies for encouraging the use of English in academic settings have been implemented. International students' academic success may suffer if colleges refuse to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tabasum Niroo, Wolayat; Williams, Mitchell R. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
International students from developing Asian countries where English is the second and foreign language are marginalized in some American Universities due to language barriers. Native English speakers often assume that whoever comes to the United States should be able to speak and write English perfectly. In developing Asian countries, such as…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sok, Sarah; Du, Qian; Lee, Jerry Won – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Various examinations are administered at universities across the US as a means of assessing bilingual/multilingual international teaching assistants' (ITAs') proficiency in spoken English before they are permitted to teach. While such exams are taken by students in a range of academic disciplines, recent research suggests that communicative…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sinclair, Jeanne; Larson, Elizabeth Jean; Rajendram, Shakina – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
The number of internationally mobile students pursuing higher education increases each year, with 8 million students expected to study abroad globally by 2025 (Farrugia, 2014). Many English-dominant universities require international applicants to provide standardized test scores as evidence of English proficiency. Accordingly, millions of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests
Llosa, Lorena; Malone, Margaret E. – Language Testing, 2019
Investigating the comparability of students' performance on TOEFL writing tasks and actual academic writing tasks is essential to provide backing for the extrapolation inference in the TOEFL validity argument (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008). This study compared 103 international non-native-English-speaking undergraduate students'…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Dewey, Martin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This viewpoint article provides a critical reflection on the gatekeeping and academic language practices of Anglophone universities, evaluating these in light of the promotional claims universities make about internationalization and global reach. I then consider the arguments put forward in each of the main articles in this special issue from…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lowinger, Robert Jay; He, Zhaomin; Lin, Miranda; Chang, Mei – College Student Journal, 2014
This study examined the role of academic self-efficacy, acculturation difficulties, and language abilities on procrastination behavior using a convenience sample of 264 Chinese international students studying at three public universities in the United States. While there were no significant mean gender differences on any of the measures, results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Acculturation, Foreign Students
Ginther, April; Elder, Catherine – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
In line with expanded conceptualizations of validity that encompass the interpretations and uses of test scores in particular policy contexts, this report presents results of a comparative analysis of institutional understandings and uses of 3 international English proficiency tests widely used for tertiary selection--the "TOEFL iBT"®…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Questionnaires
Farnsworth, Timothy L. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This study examined the construct validity of the TOEFL iBT Speaking subsection for the purposes of international teaching assistant (ITA) certification, a purpose for which it was not specifically designed. The factor structure of the new TOEFL was compared with that of another language performance test in use at a major American research…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning