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Direct linkBateson, Gordon – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
As a result of the Japanese Ministry of Education's recent edict that students' written and spoken English should be assessed in university entrance exams, there is an urgent need for tools to help teachers and students prepare for these exams. Although some commercial tools already exist, they are generally expensive and inflexible. To address…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Internet, Writing Tests
Download full textChaudhary, Shreesh – TESL-EJ, 2008
Courses in Spoken English (SE) are yet to be acceptable in Indian universities because conducting session-end tests in SE is assumed to be logistically difficult and academically problematic. This article argues that it need not necessarily be so; session-end tests can be conducted just as in other courses. With voice recording, preferably a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Networks, French, English (Second Language)
Stansfield, Charles W.; Kenyon, Dorry Mann – 1988
The development and validation of a Portuguese oral language test are described. The test consisted of five item types: personal conversation, giving directions, description of picture sequences, topical discourse, and oral task completion based on printed instructions. Three preliminary forms of the test were administered to a group of language…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Interviews, Language Tests, Oral Language
Peer reviewedCalderbank, Mark; Awwad, Muhammad – System, 1988
Discusses the issue of oral communication tests through an account of an oral test administered to nearly 1,000 students at Yarmouk University Language Center. The ways in which the institution attempted to overcome problems in the oral test's feasibility, validity, and reliability are presented. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Pavlou, Pavlos – 1994
This paper investigates the role of cohesion in oral proficiency testing. This study analyzed the cohesion of oral reports given by 16 Cypriot high school students studying English as a foreign language (EFL) using a modification of M. A. K. Halliday and R. Hasan's rating scale. It then compared the objective cohesion ratings with impressionistic…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
El-Koumy, Abdel-Salam Abdel-Khalek – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to review the theoretical and empirical literature relevant to language performance assessment. Following a definition of performance assessment, this paper considers: (1) theoretical assumptions underlying performance assessment; (2) purposes of performance assessment; (3) performance assessment procedures; (4) merits…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Second Language Learning, Role Playing, Oral Language
