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Direct linkTuc C. Chau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current dissertation is to map the relationships between first language (L1), writing quality, and syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical complexity, and fluency (CALF) in second language (L2) writing. CALF are characteristics of language production that have been of significant interest in L2 writing research for the past few…
Descriptors: Correlation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedOkim 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
Kang, Okim; Thomson, Ron; Moran, Meghan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This study examines the effect of incorporating a variety of international English accents into a simulated TOEFL listening comprehension test in growing recognition of internationalization of language teaching and learning in the field of TESOL. Although some high-stakes English proficiency exams have begun incorporating speech samples produced…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Listening Comprehension Tests, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Hannah, L.; Kim, H.; Jang, E. E. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
As a branch of artificial intelligence, automated speech recognition (ASR) technology is increasingly used to detect speech, process it to text, and derive the meaning of natural language for various learning and assessment purposes. ASR inaccuracy may pose serious threats to valid score interpretations and fair score use for all when it is…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Speech Communication, Audio Equipment
Download full textLanteigne, Betty – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Jumbled sentence items in language assessment have been criticized by some authors as inauthentic. However, unscrambling jumbled sentences is a common occurrence in real-world communication in English as a lingua franca. Naturalistic inquiry identified 54 instances of jumbled sentence use in daily life in Dubai/Sharjah, where English is widely…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Test Items, Language Tests
Johnson, Karen E.; Jordan, Stefanie Rehn; Poehner, Matthew E. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
Much of the research on the effects of tests on foreign and second-language classrooms has examined the impact or washback effect that commercial/institutional language tests, such as the TOEFL, have on teachers' instructional practices (Hughes, 1998; Wall & Alderson, 1993). Using a case study methodology, this study uncovered the ways in…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, Language Variation
