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Ihlenfeldt, Samuel Dale; Rios, Joseph A. – Language Testing, 2023
For institutions where English is the primary language of instruction, English assessments for admissions such as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and International English Language Testing System (IELTS) give admissions decision-makers a sense of a student's skills in academic English. Despite this explicit purpose, these exams…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Test Validity, College Admission, Second Language Learning
Senefonte, Fabio Henrique Rosa – Online Submission, 2019
Unquestionably, discussions on the internationalization of higher education have gained currency in the educational context (Knight, 2004; Altbach; Knight, 2007; Delgado-Marquez; Hurtado-Torres; Bondar, 2011), and language policies prove to be a crucial issue in the internationalization arena. In this regard, Paraná's government created the Paraná…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Frantz, Roger S.; Bailey, Alison L.; Starr, Laura; Perea, Luis – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
The current focus across the U.S. on student college and career readiness standards makes clear that both instruction and assessment of academic English will continue to be important for school-age English learner (EL) students. This article presents an overview and summary of key literature on academic language (usually academic English);…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English Language Learners, State Standards, Language Proficiency
Ajideh, Parviz; Farrokhi, Farahman; Nourdad, Nava – World Journal of Education, 2012
Dynamic assessment as a complementary approach to traditional static assessment emphasizes the learning process and accounts for the amount and nature of examiner investment. The present qualitative study analyzed interactions for 270 reading test items which were recorded and tape scripted. The reading ability of 9 EFL participants at three…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Processes, Evaluation Methods
Biber, Douglas; Nekrasova, Tatiana; Horn, Brad – ETS Research Report Series, 2011
This research project undertook a review and synthesis of previous research on the effectiveness of feedback for individual writing development. The work plan was divided into two main phases. First, we surveyed all available studies that have investigated the effectiveness of writing feedback, including both quantitative and qualitative research,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response), Writing Skills

Spolsky, Bernard – Language Testing, 1990
Explores the origin of the Test of English-as-a-Foreign-Language, with its distinctive characteristics, in a 1961 conference, and seeks thereby to gain an understanding of how developments in language testing theory--and perhaps theory in general--are blended with the requirements and possibilities of real-life implementation. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Conferences, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests

Fouly, Kamal A.; And Others – Language Learning, 1990
Investigated the nature of second-language proficiency with respect to its divisibility and components. The correlated-traits and second-order hypotheses were evaluated using 354 students learning English-as-a-Second-Language, a wide range of language proficiency measures, and comfirmatory data-analytic techniques. (36 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education, Language Proficiency

Raimes, Ann – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Describes the development of the Educational Testing Service's (ETS) tests of composition for native speakers of English and of the Test of English as a Foreign Language's (TOEFL) Test of Written English (TWE). Recommendations are provided for carefully scrutinizing new developments in ETS testing as they affect students. (39 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Native Speakers
Lee, Gabriel A. – Online Submission, 2002
Rauding theory states that two factors, accuracy and rate, explain nearly all the variance in the general reading ability of American schoolchildren (Carver, 1999). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and regression, this dissertation investigated to what extent the Rauding model could be applied to 92 Japanese university aged young adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Word Recognition, Reading Ability