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Direct linkHsu, Hsiu-Chen – Language Learning Journal, 2019
This study examined the effect of the combination of task repetition and post-task transcribing (TRPT) on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) of L2 oral performance and their subsequent development. Taiwanese university students (N = 39) were randomly assigned to one of the three groups: TRPT, task repetition (TR), and control group, and…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Gablasova, Dana – Language Learning Journal, 2014
This article discusses issues related to oral assessment of school knowledge of L2-educated students. In particular, it examines benefits and disadvantages of students being tested in their L1 (their dominant language) and in their L2 (their language of instruction). The study draws on the data from 37 high school students studying in a content…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Usage
Houghton, Stephanie Ann – Language Learning Journal, 2013
This article reports on an action research case study conducted at a university in Japan, which explored how student identity-development can be made visible in potentially assessable ways through materials design in intercultural communicative competence (ICC)-oriented foreign language education. It suggests that identity-development can be…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Li, Daguo – Language Learning Journal, 2007
The present study sets out to examine the strategies used by Chinese learners in a predominantly naturalistic environment and how such learner strategy use relates to their proficiency in the second language. Data were collected from four Chinese research students in the UK using semi-structured interviews. Their proficiency in English was…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Metacognition, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHurman, John – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Studied the marking characteristics of experienced markers of GCSE role-play to ascertain the extent of variation between the marks they award and to determine whether more intermarker consistency could be obtained with a small increase in time for thought before a particular mark is awarded. Results underlie the importance of reducing the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability, Oral Language
Peer reviewedRichards, Brian; Chambers, Francine – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Examined open-ended production tasks in higher level testing in French-as-a-second-language courses in the United Kingdom. The article studied the effect of teachers' linguistic background, training, experience, and ability on their marking of students' oral language tests; the reliability of marking criteria; and the validity of assessing…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, French, Language Fluency
