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A Further Comment on Language Proficiency as a Source of Variance in Certain Affective Measures.
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Oller, John W., Jr.; Perkins, Kyle – Language Learning, 1978
Questions the validity of current measurement instruments or techniques which purport to assess affective variables, and relates this to the question of correlation between measures of affective variables and attained language proficiency. (AM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Language Proficiency
Using a Facet Design to Assess the Effects of the Form, the Source, and the Frequency of Information Necessary to Answer ESL Reading Comprehension Questions.
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Perkins, Kyle; Brutten, Sheila R. – Language Learning, 1988
Analysis of the keyed responses of items in three English-as-a-Second-Language reading comprehension tests focused on the form and source of information and on the frequency with which the information appeared in the text. Analysis of the results found that these facets were differentially related to the item score at different proficiency levels.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Proficiency
Intelligence and Language Proficiency as Sources of Variance in Self-Reported Affective Variables.
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Oller, John W., Jr.; Perkins, Kyle – Language Learning, 1978
Discusses three possible sources of nonrandom but extraneous variance in self-reported attitude data, and demonstrates that these data may be surreptitious measures of verbal intelligence and language proficiency. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Correlation