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Jones, Daniel Marc; Cheng, Liying; Tweedie, M. Gregory – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2022
This article reviews recent literature (2011-present) on the automated scoring (AS) of writing and speaking. Its purpose is to first survey the current research on automated scoring of language, then highlight how automated scoring impacts the present and future of assessment, teaching, and learning. The article begins by outlining the general…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Writing (Composition)
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Davoodifard, Mahshad – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
Over the past 40 years, second language educators and assessors have come to the realization that investigating the process of writing can shed light on language teaching, learning and assessment practices (Odendahl & Deane, 2018). What L2 writers do and think while writing can provide links between the task, the related construct and the…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Accuracy, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
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Kunnan, John Antony – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
This survey of recent developments in language testing offers a broad view of the field by focusing on significant developments that have occurred in the last half decade, including theoretical developments, practical developments, and recent resources. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Ethics, Language Tests
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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
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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