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Hatasa, Yukiko; Watanabe, Tomoko – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
This article reviews assessment practices of Japanese as a second language as taught in Japan since the 1980s. It begins with an explanation of the social and political conditions that have impacted assessment practices in Japan and then addresses current assessment practices and issues. This analysis first examines large-scale tests developed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Japanese, Language Tests
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Brown, Annie; Iwashita, Noriko – System, 1996
Investigates the performance of students from different language backgrounds, using data from a computer-adaptive Japanese grammar test developed as a placement tool. Findings indicate item difficulties to be quite different for each group of candidates and imply that when candidates are from a different background from that of the trial…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries