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Shahnazari-Dorcheh, Mohammadtaghi; Roshan, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
Due to the lack of span test for the use in language-specific and cross-language studies, this study provides L1 and L2 researchers with a reliable language-independent span test (math span test) for the measurement of working memory capacity. It also describes the development, validation, and scoring method of this test. This test included 70…
Descriptors: Language Research, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Scoring
Rubin, Donald L. – 1989
Because the language of a multiple choice test is formal and often unfamiliar, certain linguistic features may lead a test-taker to misconstrue the test instructions, questions, or answers. When this happens, a shared understanding of meaning between tester and test-taker is not present, and the test results are invalid. Although this problem…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, English, Item Bias
Pico, Eliseo – 1990
A study investigated the reliability and validity of the partial dictation test, a combination of dictation and cloze procedure, to measure foreign language listening comprehension. Subjects were 78 students of English as a Foreign Language in the second year of high school in Spain. Students listened to a passage from a commercial reader three…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Dictation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Bostrom, Robert N.; Waldhart, Enid S. – Communication Education, 1988
Noting weaknesses in "standard" methods of measuring listening skills, developes a five-factor model utilizing three different kinds of memory and adding tasks requiring interpretation and concentration. Varying subscales--with the exception of the interpretive task--are found to be sufficiently reliable for research purposes. (NH)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Higher Education, Language Research, Learning Processes