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Direct linkRice, Mabel L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This review article summarizes a program of longitudinal investigation of twins' language acquisition with a focus on causal pathways for specific language impairment (SLI) and nonspecific language impairment in children at 4 and 6 years with known history at 2 years. Method: The context of the overview is established by legacy scientific…
Descriptors: Twins, Genetics, Language Impairments, Age Differences
Elder, Catherine; McNamara, Tim – Language Testing, 2016
Gaining insights from domain experts into how they view communication in real world settings is recognized as an important authenticity consideration in the development of criteria to assess language proficiency for specific academic or occupational purposes. These "indigenous" criteria represent an articulation of the test construct and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Models
Murray, Neil – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
The growing number of students from increasingly diverse backgrounds--both English speaking and non-English speaking--entering English-medium institutions of higher education has put unprecedented pressure on universities to think creatively about efficient and cost-effective ways of identifying students at risk linguistically. Having done so,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Models
Download full textFehring, Heather – 1988
Intended to aid schools in designing a Literacy Profile (defined here as consisting of documented information from a variety of assessments of a student's performance over a range of items defined as the dimensions of language learning), this pamphlet presents an alternative to standard assessment techniques. In the form of data tables the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Tests
Griffin, Patrick E.; And Others – 1986
The third of three reports resulting from a study of the developing proficiency of adult migrants in English as a Second Language (ESL), this document describes the outcomes of a Victoria, Australia, research and development project to develop mechanisms for implementing evaluation procedures within the Adult Migrant Education Program (AMEP). The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Interviews
McNamara, Tim – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
The thought of Samuel Messick has influenced language testing in 2 main ways: in proposing a new understanding of how inferences made based on tests must be challenged, and in drawing attention to the consequences of test use. The former has had a powerful impact on language-testing research, most notably in Bachman's work on validity and the…
Descriptors: Test Use, Testing, Language Tests, Validity
