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Xixiang Lou – SAGE Open, 2025
EL1 learners' receptive morphological words (root, inflected, and derived words) develop on different scales, but whether they develop similarly in EFL learners' language production is still unknown and deserves an examination. The answer may provide a clue to theoretical controversy about whether language learners' morphologically defined words…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Xue Geng; Yaru Meng – SAGE Open, 2025
Dynamic assessment (DA), based on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, integrates instruction and assessment into a single activity through interactive dialog between the mediator and learner to promote development. This research utilized the interactionist DA to assess and enhance five types of listening inferential abilities of Chinese EFL learners.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xiaohua Liu – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
The surge of generative AI (GenAI) tools on the internet has caused unprecedented disruptions to education, and there are growing concerns about them being misused by students to commit plagiarism, hence jeopardizing assessment validity. Despite the foreseeable challenges, it remains unclear how frontline language teachers perceive and react to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education
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Yang Yang – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
This paper explores the reliability of using ChatGPT in evaluating EFL writing by assessing its intra- and inter-rater reliability. Eighty-two compositions were randomly sampled from the Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners. These compositions were rated by three experienced raters with regard to 'language', 'content', and 'organization'.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Evaluation Methods
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Han, Chao; Lu, Xiaolei – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The use of translation and interpreting (T&I) in the language learning classroom is commonplace, serving various pedagogical and assessment purposes. Previous utilization of T&I exercises is driven largely by their potential to enhance language learning, whereas the latest trend has begun to underscore T&I as a crucial skill to be…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Correlation, Language Processing
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Chen Xuemei; Luxana Keyuraphan; Sarayuth Sethakhajorn; Narongwat Mingmit – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
This study explored sustainable development strategies to improve the effectiveness of College English hybrid teaching literacy of Normal Universities in Sichuan province. This study aimed to (1) explore the current situation of College English hybrid teaching literacy of Normal Universities in Sichuan Province, (2) establish the sustainable…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Blended Learning
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Yachong Cui; Rachel Saulsburry; Kimberly Wolbers – American Annals of the Deaf, 2024
Limited access to spoken and signed language is a worldwide phenomenon affecting deaf children. Language delay caused by impeded language acquisition has negative cascading effects on deaf children's learning and development. In the event of stymied language development, deaf students exhibit highly errored writing and commit errors unseen in the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Written Language, Writing Evaluation, North Americans
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Shang, Xiaoqi; Xie, Guixia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Sight translation has been widely used in aptitude testing to screen prospective trainee interpreters at leading interpreter training schools, including ESIT, ISIT, and EMCI. However, it has also been criticised for its lack of validity and reliability. No empirical study has thus far been conducted to explore its power to predict interpreting…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Heng Cai; Miao Yang; Danping Wen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The past few decades have seen a boom in English-medium instruction (EMI) in Chinese universities. Despite growing research interest in EMI policy and practices in China, little is known about how students' motivation to study in the EMI programs is influenced by EMI policy and its implementation at the meso and micro levels. This study addresses…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Medical Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jia, Wenfeng; Zhang, Peixin – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
It is widely believed that raters' cognition is an important aspect of writing assessment, as it has both logical and temporal priority over scores. Based on a critical review of previous research in this area, it is found that raters' cognition can be boiled to two fundamental issues: building text images and strategies for articulating scores.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Writing Evaluation, Evaluators
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Yang, Yanfeng; Qian, David D. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Built on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, Dynamic Assessment (DA) integrates teaching and assessment through mediator-learner interactions to promote learner development. This study employed interactionist DA to diagnose Chinese university EFL learners' reading difficulties and promote their reading proficiency in a seven-week study. The design…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Evaluation Methods
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Hongyan Xi; Dongyan Sang – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
By using modern data analysis techniques, this study aims to construct an innovative university English teaching effectiveness evaluation model based on particle swarm algorithm and support vector machine. The model is designed to improve assessment accuracy and personalization. The research process includes the methodology of data collection,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Higher Education
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Tang, Youjun; Ma, Xiaomei – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
This article explores the value of dynamic assessment (DA) for college English writing (CEW), a required course for millions of students in China that typically enrolls 50 students in each class. An interventionist approach to DA, in which mediation and administration are standardized, was selected and supplemented with a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Evaluation Methods, College Second Language Programs, Writing Instruction
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Cai, Yuyang; Chen, Huilin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Thinking skills play a critical role in determining language performance. Recent advancement in cognitive diagnostic modelling (CDM) provides a powerful tool for obtaining fine-grained information regarding these thinking skills during reading. Studies are scant, however, exploring the relations between thinking skills and language performance,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Reading Processes
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Han, Chao; Xiao, Xiaoyan – Language Testing, 2022
The quality of sign language interpreting (SLI) is a gripping construct among practitioners, educators and researchers, calling for reliable and valid assessment. There has been a diverse array of methods in the extant literature to measure SLI quality, ranging from traditional error analysis to recent rubric scoring. In this study, we want to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Evaluators
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