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Mislevy, Robert J.; Yin, Chengbin – Language Learning, 2009
Individuals' use of language in contexts emerges from second-to-second processes of activating and integrating traces of past experiences--an interactionist view compatible with the study of language as a complex adaptive system but quite different from the trait-based framework through which measurement specialists investigate validity, establish…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Tests, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Pica, Teresa – Language Learning, 1994
Reviews research on the social interaction and negotiation of second language (L2) learners and their interlocutors. This research illustrates ways in which negotiation contributes to conditions, processes, and outcomes of L2 learning by facilitating learners' comprehension and structural segmentation of L2 input, access to lexical form and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Language Research, Language Usage