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Acquisition and Retention of Esperanto: The Case for Error Correction and Immediate Feedback
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Brosvic, Gary M.; Epstein, Michael L.; Dihoff, Roberta E.; Cook, Michael J. – Psychological Record, 2006
Participants completed 5 laboratory examinations during which the number of responses permitted (1 response, up to 4 responses) and the timing of feedback (no feedback control: Scantron form; delayed feedback: end-of-test, 24-hr delay; immediate feedback: assistant, response form) were manipulated. Participants completed a 100-item cumulative…
Descriptors: Language Laboratories, Feedback, Artificial Languages, Second Language Learning
Valid Research into Foreign Language Teaching--Two Recent Projects.
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Freedman, Elaine S. – System, 1979
Two small-scale studies of foreign language test validity are reviewed. The teacher variable is found to be the great threat to test validity, even when grammatical material is presented in the language laboratory. Suggestions for compensating for teacher influence are offered. (JB)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Laboratories, Language Teachers, Language Tests
Practice and Problems in Language Testing 8. Papers presented at the International Language Testing Symposium of the Interuniversitare Sprachtestgruppe (8th, Tampere, Finland, November 17-18, 1984). AFinla Series No. 40.
Kohonen, Viljo, Ed.; And Others – 1985
A collection of papers on language testing addresses these topics: language tests seen from a communicative viewpoint; microcomputers and testing; productive second language skills; developing teachers' assessment skills; content validity of holistic tests; statistical regression in group conversation tests; reading comprehension; unique…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)