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Implementation of Web-Based Dynamic Assessment in Improving Low English Achievers' Learning Effectiveness
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Tzu-Hua Wang; Yu Sun; Nai-Wen Huang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This research applied a web-based dynamic assessment system, GPAM-WATA system, to help low English achievers to perform self-directed learning of junior high school English grammar. A quasi-experimental design was adopted. A total of 124 seventh graders from four classes participated in this research. Participants were randomly divided into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Investigating Student Performance on an Assessment Tool to Support the Development of English Learners' Argumentation Skills
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Song, Yi; Sparks, Jesse R.; Guzman-Orth, Danielle – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The goal of this project was to design a scaffolded learning activity that develops English learners' (ELs) argumentation skills. In this study, we investigated how middle school ELs interacted with a game-enhanced scenario-based assessment of argumentation skills (named "Seaball"). The target skills included identifying and classifying…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Persuasive Discourse, Skill Development, Middle School Students
Dynamics of Item Reading and Answer Changing in Two Hearings in a Computerized While-Listening Performance Test: An Eye-Tracking Study
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Aryadoust, Vahid – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
The aim of the present study is two-fold. First, it uses eye-tracking to investigate the dynamics of item reading, both in multiple choice and matching items, before and during two hearings of listening passages in a computerized while-listening performance (WLP) test. Second, it investigates answer changing during the two hearings, which include…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Test Items, Secondary School Students, Reading Processes