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Taehyeong Kim; Byungmin Lee – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
The Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) aims to assess Korean high school students' scholastic ability required for college readiness. As a high-stakes test, the examination serves as a pivotal hurdle for university admission and exerts a strong washback effect on the educational system in Korea. The present study set out to investigate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
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Tim Stoeckel; Liang Ye Tan; Hung Tan Ha; Nam Thi Phuong Ho; Tomoko Ishii; Young Ae Kim; Chunmei Huang; Stuart McLean – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
Local item dependency (LID) occurs when test-takers' responses to one test item are affected by their responses to another. It can be problematic if it causes inflated reliability estimates or distorted person and item measures. The cued-recall reading comprehension test in Hu and Nation's (2000) well-known and influential coverage--comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Sivakorn Tangsakul; Kornwipa Poonpon – rEFLections, 2024
Given the significant global influence of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CEFR) on English language education, this study deals with aligning a university's academic reading tests to the CEFR. It aimed at validating the test construct of the academic reading tests in relation to the…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Reading Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Ching-Ni Hsieh – ETS Research Report Series, 2023
Researchers suggest that claims about the meaningfulness of test score interpretations and consequences of test use should be backed by evidence that stakeholders understand the definition of the construct assessed (meaningfulness) and score reports (consequences). Evaluation of stakeholders' actual uses and interpretations of score reports in…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Listening Comprehension, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Viengsang, Raveewan; Wasanasomsithi, Punchalee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
In recent decades, there has been an attempt to introduce the concept of "assessment for learning" into English language classrooms based on a belief that assessment can be utilized to assist learners in the learning process, not just for teachers to make judgments and decisions. In so doing, the learning-oriented assessment frameworks…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Tests
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Hassane Razkane; Samir Diouny – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study explored the effect of metacognitive reading strategy intervention in English on helping Moroccan learners reversely transfer metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2). In particular, it investigated whether an improvement in metacognitive reading strategy in English (L3) would lead to an improvement in reading…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Multilingualism, Native Language
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Yamazaki, Joseph S. – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2022
Despite their well-established connections to student motivation and to learning outcomes, attributions, particularly at the task-level, have not garnered much attention in L2 learning research. However, research evidence in educational psychology (e.g., Stajkovic & Sommer, 2000) suggests that L2 task attributions may affect subsequent task…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Alvin Espiritu Bersamin; Mark Bedoya Ulla; Aree Saripa; Korawan Suebsom; Henry E. Lemana II – rEFLections, 2024
This research aimed to assess the impact of blended learning on the English reading comprehension abilities of second-year Thai vocational students. It also examined how these students perceived their satisfaction regarding their blended learning experience using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework. Thirty students enrolled in a Thai…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Reading Comprehension, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
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Yang, Chengsong – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This study made triangulated use of eye-tracking and retrospective verbal reports (RVRs) to compare the banked gap-filling processes of two same-scorers and those of a top scorer and a bottom scorer. The two same-scorers differed in their cognitive effort on global and local processing, fluency of choice making, and strategy use when completing…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Namaziandost, Ehsan; Razmi, Mohammad Hasan; Ahmad Tilwani, Shouket; Pourhosein Gilakjani, Abbas – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the effect of using authentic materials on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' reading comprehension, reading motivation, and reading anxiety. In this study, 58 Iranian male EFL learners were selected and randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Both groups were pretested through a reading…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Pretests Posttests
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Anderson, Jim; Anderson, Ann – Reading Psychology, 2021
The purpose of this study, which employed mixed methods, was to document the implementation of a bilingual family literacy program with immigrant and refugee families from four different language groups in five different communities in a metropolitan area of Canada. Results indicated: 1) the program had a significant impact on children's early…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Refugees
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Al Qahtani, Abdulkhaleq A. – TESOL International Journal, 2020
The present study reports reading strategies of Arabic L1 EFL college-level learners at three reading ability levels: high, medium, and low. Thirty students were asked to take the reading section of the TOFEL to determine their reading abilities. Then two participants from each level were selected randomly to go through the think-aloud protocol…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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Owen, Nathaniel; Shrestha, Prithvi N.; Hultgren, Anna Kristina – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
This project examined academic reading in two contrasting English as a medium of instruction (EMI) university settings in Nepal and Sweden and the unique challenges facing students who are studying in a language other than their primary language. The motivation for the project was to explore the role of high-stakes testing in EMI contexts and the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Reading Tests, Language of Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing
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Liao, Ray J. T. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
This study was to compare the processes that second language learners implemented when completing reading tasks in a multiple-choice question format (MCQ) with those in a short-answer question format (SAQ). Sixteen nonnative English-speaking students from a large Midwestern college in the United States were invited to complete MCQ and SAQ English…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Format, Comparative Analysis, Reading Tests
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Azad, Mohammad Taghei; Ahmadian, Moussa – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Morphological analysis and incidental learning are two vocabulary learning strategies that language learners may use in order to acquire the meanings of new words. To date, however, few studies have compared the effectiveness of these two strategies. Hence, the current study was carried out to compare the effect of morphological analysis and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary Skills, Incidental Learning, Teaching Methods
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