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Tanaka, Mitsuko; Ross, Steven J. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
Raters vary from each other in their severity and leniency in rating performance. This study examined the factors affecting rater severity in peer assessments of oral presentations in English as a Foreign Language (EFL), focusing on peer raters' self-construal and presentation abilities. Japanese university students enrolled in EFL classes…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Interrater Reliability, Item Response Theory, Peer Evaluation
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Yuichiro Yokouchi – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
The performance decision tree (PDT; Fulcher et al., 2011) is a rubric style that is applicable to performance assessment, with origins in Upshur and Turner's (1995) empirically derived binary-choice, boundary-definition (EBB) scale. It is easier for raters to assess performance by evaluating multiple binary-choice descriptors. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Swanson, Pete; LeLoup, Jean W. – NECTFL Review, 2022
Given the call by Krashen (2012) and others advocating for shorter, easier to digest research papers, we provide a shorter than usual summary of the World Language edTPA via empirical findings from the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity and researchers in the field. We argue in favor of abandoning the World Language edTPA for…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education Programs
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Liu-Cheng Pan; Jerry Chih-Yuan Sun – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
Taking into account the challenges of EFL vocabulary learning for East Asian learners, this study developed a set of experimental English vocabulary material with pictographic glosses which may stimulate students' situational interest (with dimensions of exploration intention, instant enjoyment, novelty, attention demand, challenge, and total…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Asians, Pictorial Stimuli, Vocabulary Development
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Yi-Ching Pan – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Many university students in Taiwan have complained that the general English class is not very exciting nor useful for the workplace due to its exam-oriented and teacher-centered instruction focus. Such negative impressions often lead to a low motivation toward learning English and affect students' learning outcomes. This study aimed to establish…
Descriptors: College English, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Koné, Kadidja – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This study investigates university English learners' motivational and emotional responses to a performance-based assessment project before and after the project. Data were collected from 25 students learning English as a foreign language using two motivation questionnaires while they were working individually on a project called "Identity…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Bui, Hung Phu – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This study investigates Vietnamese university EFL teachers' and students' beliefs and teachers' practices regarding classroom assessment. Data were collected from a questionnaire administered to 455 participants (104 teachers and 351 students), interviews with nine teachers and twelve students, and 18 observations of 90-min lessons in five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, College Faculty
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Marzieh Souzandehfar – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
This study represents the inaugural attempt at assessing the authenticity of the tasks encompassed in the IELTS Speaking Module. The evaluation is conducted from the vantage points of applied linguistics and general education, and serves to enhance comprehension of authenticity and authentic assessment. In order to achieve this objective, an…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Applied Linguistics
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Francis John Troyan; Pete Swanson; Victoria Russell – Hispania, 2023
Both within the field of world language (WL) teacher education and across teacher education in other disciplines, critiques of the edTPA have increased over the past several years. In WL language education, scholars have identified issues related to raters' use of edTPA rubrics and a serious lack of transparency about rater expertise. To better…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Language Teachers, Teacher Certification
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Suastra, I. Made; Menggo, Sebastianus – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
It is quite common to our understanding that classroom assessment outcomes are not sensitive to the goal of teaching and learning language skills. More specifically, the assessment cannot allow the students to present what they know and what they are supposed to do. The purpose of classroom assessment is to inform teaching and to improve learning.…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Writing Skills, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
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Menggo, Sebastianus; Gunas, Tobias – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
Assessment is one component of a learning process that cannot be excluded by an English teacher in the teaching-learning process. The form and type of assessment applied in the teaching-learning process are adapted to the orientation of learners' target outcomes. It is a space of reflection for teachers and students in the awareness of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Scott Kissau; Kristin Davin; Kristen Moore – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Cherokee is an endangered Indigenous language. Revitalization efforts often include offering Cherokee language instruction, but these efforts have been hampered by a lack of qualified teachers. An initial licensure program was launched in fall 2019 aimed at supporting Cherokee language renewal via the preparation of teachers. While a step forward,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yufrizal, Hery; Pratiwi, Nery Eka – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
The objectives of this study are firstly to explore students' self-assessment on four language competence: linguistic, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence, and strategic competences, secondly to find out whether there is any significant influence of students' length of language learning toward their self-assessment of communicative…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Communicative Competence (Languages), Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Eskin, Daniel – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
For agencies that deliver high-stakes Second Language (L2) proficiency exams, a research agenda has been undertaken for years to examine the role of rater, task, and rubric as sources of variability into their performance assessments (Lee, 2006; Sawaki & Sinharay, 2013; Xi, 2007; Xi & Mollaun, 2006). However, these challenges are more…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement
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Svenja Lemmrich; Timo Ehmke – Cogent Education, 2024
This study conducted a quantitative study analysis of teacher competence in linguistically responsive teaching (LRT). To assess performance-oriented competence, we used a test instrument with video vignettes and corresponding items based on situation-specific skills "perception" (What do you perceive?) and "decision-making"…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Positive Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Evaluation
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