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Farnsworth, Tim – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
This study investigated the effect of targeted test preparation, or coaching, on oral English as a second language test scores. The tests in question were the Basic English Skills Test Plus (BEST Plus), a scripted oral interview published by the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the Versant English Test (VET), a computer-administered and…
Descriptors: Performance Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Salverda, Anne Pier; Altmann, Gerry T. M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Participants saw a small number of objects in a visual display and performed a visual detection or visual-discrimination task in the context of task-irrelevant spoken distractors. In each experiment, a visual cue was presented 400 ms after the onset of a spoken word. In experiments 1 and 2, the cue was an isoluminant color change and participants…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention, Eye Movements, Cues