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Papageorgiou, Spiros; Cho, Yeonsuk – Language Testing, 2014
A common use of language tests is to support decisions about examinees such as placement into appropriate classes. Research on placement testing has focused on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in higher education contexts. However, there is little research exploring the use of language tests to place students in English as a Second Language…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Placement
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Kokhan, Kateryna – Language Testing, 2012
The English Placement Test (EPT) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is designed to provide an accurate placement (or exemption) of international students into the ESL writing and pronunciation classes. Over the last five years, UIUC has experienced an increase in the number of international students taking the EPT. Because of…
Descriptors: Student Placement, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Scores
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Fairclough, Marta – Language Testing, 2011
This investigation intends to assess the effectiveness of a lexical recognition test (Meara & Buxton, 1987) as a placement tool that distinguishes among levels of two groups of students: Spanish heritage language learners (HLL) and second language learners (SLL). Three hundred and thirty university students from four different levels completed a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Cloze Procedure, Graduate Students, Testing