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Direct linkMonster, Iris; Tellings, Agnes; Burk, William J.; Keuning, Jos; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Testing, 2021
Word knowledge acquisition is an incremental process that relies on exposure. As a result, word knowledge can broadly range from recognizing the word's lexical status, to knowing its meaning in context, and to knowing its meaning independent of context. The present study aimed to model incremental word knowledge in 1454 upper primary school…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Task Analysis
Janina Kahn-Horwitz; Zahava Goldstein – Language Testing, 2024
In order to inform English foreign language (EFL) diagnostic assessment of literacy, this study examined the extent to which 175 first-language Hebrew-speaking EFL young learners from fifth to tenth grade exhibited differences in single-letter grapheme recognition, sub-word, and word reading, and rapid automatized naming (RAN) of letters and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Leontjev, Dmitri; Huhta, Ari; Tolvanen, Asko – Language Testing, 2023
Derivational morphology (DM) and how it can be assessed have been investigated relatively rarely in language learning and testing research. The goal of this study is to add to the understanding of the nature of DM knowledge, exploring whether and how it is separable from vocabulary breadth. Eight L2 (second or foreign language) English DM…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Brunfaut, Tineke; Kormos, Judit; Michel, Marije; Ratajczak, Michael – Language Testing, 2021
Extensive research has demonstrated the impact of working memory (WM) on first language (L1) reading comprehension across age groups (Peng et al., 2018), and on foreign language (FL) reading comprehension of adults and older adolescents (Linck et al., 2014). Comparatively little is known about the effect of WM on young FL readers' comprehension,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy
