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Examining the Effects of a Diagnostic Language Test on Learning
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Jiuliang Li; Noriko Iwashita – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study applied expectancy-value theory (EVT) to examine the impact of diagnostic language assessment (DLA) on the learning activities of a group of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). A model of test impact on learning was conceptualized by integrating EVT and DLA theories. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Enhancing EFL Learners' Intercultural Communicative Effectiveness through Telecollaboration with Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
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Gi-Zen Liu; Jalil Fathi; Masoud Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has recently attracted the researchers' attention in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context; however, insufficient studies seem to have examined the role of online programmes in enhancing EFL learners' ICC. The current study, therefore, employed a mixed-methods approach to explore EFL learners'…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning