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Direct linkMark Chapman; Meg Montee; Yangting Wang; Gordon Blaine West; Jason A. Kemp; Ahyoung Alicia Kim – Language Testing, 2026
This paper reports the results of a study designed to explore the relationships between speaking test task variables and linguistic features of spoken responses on a speaking assessment for Grade 7 multilingual English learners (age 12-13) in U.S. public schools. Speaking task responses from 30 high-proficiency test takers were transcribed and…
Descriptors: English Learners, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency
Jingwen Wang; Ying Zheng – Language Testing, 2026
Two pivotal constructs, intelligibility (listeners' actual understanding) and comprehensibility (listeners' perceived difficulty of understanding), have dominated second language (L2) pronunciation research, marking a shift away from an emphasis on nativeness. The 2020 Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intelligibility, Comprehension, Pronunciation
