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Direct linkBo, Wenjin Vikki; Fu, Mingchen; Lim, Wei Ying – Language Testing, 2023
The role of international students' English language proficiency has been extensively researched to understand its impact on academic achievement in English-medium universities, mainly because of students' non-English-speaking backgrounds. However, the relationship between language proficiency and academic achievement among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Wilsenach, Carien; Schaefer, Maxine – Language Testing, 2022
Multilingualism in education is encouraged in South Africa, and children are expected to become bilingual and biliterate during the early primary grades. Much focus has been placed on measuring literacy in children's first language, often the medium of instruction (MOI), and English, the language typically used as MOI from fourth grade. However,…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension
Kaya, Elif; O'Grady, Stefan; Kalender, Ilker – Language Testing, 2022
Language proficiency testing serves an important function of classifying examinees into different categories of ability. However, misclassification is to some extent inevitable and may have important consequences for stakeholders. Recent research suggests that classification efficacy may be enhanced substantially using computerized adaptive…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Language Tests, Classification
The Impact of Pre-Task Planning on Speaking Test Performance for English-Medium University Admission
O'Grady, Stefan – Language Testing, 2019
This study investigated the impact of different lengths of pre-task planning time on performance in a test of second language speaking ability for university admission. In the study, 47 Turkish-speaking learners of English took a test of English language speaking ability. The participants were divided into two groups according to their language…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Placement
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
Isaacs, Talia; Trofimovich, Pavel; Foote, Jennifer Ann – Language Testing, 2018
There is growing research on the linguistic features that most contribute to making second language (L2) speech easy or difficult to understand. Comprehensibility, which is usually captured through listener judgments, is increasingly viewed as integral to the L2 speaking construct. However, there are shortcomings in how this construct is…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
