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Chavez, Gina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Few classroom measures of English language proficiency have been evaluated for reliability and validity. This research examined the concurrent and predictive validity of an oral language test, titled A Developmental English Language Proficiency Test (ADEPT), and the relationship to the California English Language Development Test (CELDT) in the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Witt, Autumn Song – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation follows an oral language assessment tool from initial design and implementation to validity analysis. The specialized variables of this study are the population: international teaching assistants and the purpose: spoken assessment as a hiring prerequisite. However, the process can easily be applied to other populations and…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Academic Discourse, Oral Language, Predictive Validity
Gunne, Allison J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Latino English Language Learners represent the largest group of language minority students attending public school in the United States. Research is needed to address the early literacy problems which impede this population from acquiring literacy in the English language with efficacy and to determine the most effective assessment and intervention…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Intervention, Phonological Awareness, Predictive Validity