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Direct linkGan, Zhengdong – Language Testing, 2010
This article examines the interactional work in which two groups of secondary ESL students engaged to achieve and sustain participation in group oral assessment, which is designed to assess a student's interactive communication skills in a school-based assessment context. The in-depth observation of the ways in which participants co-constructed…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Oral Language, Scoring, Case Studies
Peer reviewedTheodoros, Deborah; Murdoch, Bruce; Horton, Sue – Language Testing, 1999
Highlights the importance of a combined approach to the assessment of dysarthria with reference to two case studies of individuals with dysarthric speech: a 32-year-old adult who suffered a severe closed head injury and a 9-year-old child who experienced a cerebrovascular accident involving the basilar artery. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Language Tests, Neurological Impairments
Peer reviewedZangl, Renate – Language Testing, 2000
Provides an overview of how language skills in young learners have been assessed in two primary school contexts, carried out in a total of seven Austrian primary schools. The schools took part in an initiative where the integration of a foreign language was introduced when children entered primary school at the age of six. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, FLES
Peer reviewedCardell, Elizabeth A.; Chenery, Helen J. – Language Testing, 1999
Used a cognitive neuropsychological approach to investigate a case of acquired dysgraphia in an adult who had sustained focal brain damage. The aims of the study were to investigate the usefulness of model-based assessment in identifying the mechanisms responsible for dysgraphia and for designing a treatment program informed by theories of normal…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Psychology, Dysgraphia, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedAlderson, J. Charles; Hamp-Lyons, Liz – Language Testing, 1996
Presents a case study of the effects of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) on two teachers in the same institution. The study investigates claims that the TOEFL exerts an undesirable influence on language teaching. Findings reveal that influences on what happens in class are more complex than unexamined beliefs about washback allow.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Research, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedWatanabe, Yoshinori – Language Testing, 1996
Presents a case study investigating whether there is any connection between university entrance examinations in English as a Second Language in Japan and the prevalence of grammar-translation teaching there. Findings reveal that teacher factors, such as educational background, personal beliefs, and teaching experience may outweigh the possible…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
