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Aryadoust, Vahid – Language Testing, 2023
Construct validity and building validity arguments are some of the main challenges facing the language assessment community. The notion of construct validity and validity arguments arose from research in psychological assessment and developed into the gold standard of validation/validity research in language assessment. At a theoretical level,…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Test Validity, Second Language Learning, Construct Validity
Xi, Xiaoming – Language Testing, 2017
In recent years, continuing advances in technology have increased the capacity to automate the extraction of a range of linguistic features of texts and thus have provided the impetus for the substantial growth of corpus linguistics. While corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used extensively in second language learning research, they…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods
Wisniewski, Katrin – Language Learning, 2017
The "Common European Framework of Reference" (CEFR) is the most widespread reference tool for linking language tests, curricula, and national educational standards to levels of foreign language proficiency in Europe. In spite of this, little is known about how the CEFR levels (A1-C2) relate to empirical learner language(s). This article…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Standards, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics
Lee, Okhee – Educational Researcher, 2018
As federal legislation requires that English language proficiency (ELP) standards are aligned with content standards, this article addresses issues and concerns in aligning ELP standards with content standards in English language arts, mathematics, and science. It starts with a brief description of federal legislation for alignment between ELP…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Standards, Language Proficiency
Wodak, Ruth – Language Teaching, 2012
How are identities constructed in discourse? How are national and European identities tied to language and communication? And what role does power have--power in discourse, over discourse and of discourse? This paper seeks to identify and analyse processes of identity construction within Europe and at its boundaries, particularly the diversity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language, Identification, Power Structure
Percy, Alisa – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper argues for the re-integration of academic development (AD) and a academic language and learning (ALL) practitioners in Australian higher education. This argument is made as universities aim to develop internationally recognised, inter-disciplinary and standards-based curricula against the backdrop of international comparative education…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
Crawshaw, Robert H. – Francais dans le Monde, 1984
An oral language test administered at the end of a four-year program combining business administration and French is described. The test consists of the formal presentation of a report including numbers, graphics, and text, a discussion of a theoretical issue, and interview. (MSE)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Second Language Programs, French, Higher Education