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Direct linkNoam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Download full textLeda Lampropoulou – Language Education & Assessment, 2023
Extensive oral tasks or monologues of different types (e.g., presentations, storytelling) are often used as second language acquisition tasks in the fields of language learning and language testing. Pre-task planning time is a common provision to test-takers who may use different strategies to prepare their response. High-stakes tests, such as the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Speech Communication, Test Validity, Culture Fair Tests
F. Scott Walters – Educational Linguistics, 2021
Conversation analysis (CA) has exerted influence both on second language (L2) classroom pedagogy (e.g., Barraja-Rohan A, Pritchard R, Beyond talk: a course in communication and conversation skills for intermediate adult learners of English. Western Metropolitan Institute of TAFE, Melbourne, 1997; Wong J, Waring HZ, Conversation analysis and second…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wu, Shu-Ling; Tio, Yee Pin; Ortega, Lourdes – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
Elicited imitation (EI), a short-cut measure of global proficiency in second language (L2) research, requires participants to listen to sentences and repeat them as closely as possible. To support instrument sharing and assessment of L2 proficiency for longitudinal and crosslinguistic research, we created a parallel form of an EI task (EIT) for L2…
Descriptors: Imitation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Quaid, Ethan; Barrett, Alex – Language Education & Assessment, 2021
Research examining test taker fluency in simulated and face-to-face oral proficiency interview performances has primarily focused on quantitative spoken utterance fluency data alone, with further qualitative investigation of test taker processing fluency's effect being neglected. This study compared four test takers' spoken utterance and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Comparative Analysis
Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency: A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis
Yan, Xun; Maeda, Yukiko; Lv, Jing; Ginther, April – Language Testing, 2016
Elicited imitation (EI) has been widely used to examine second language (L2) proficiency and development and was an especially popular method in the 1970s and early 1980s. However, as the field embraced more communicative approaches to both instruction and assessment, the use of EI diminished, and the construct-related validity of EI scores as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
Wagner, Elvis; Liao, Yen-Fen; Wagner, Santoi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
L2 test developers often use scripted spoken texts in their L2 listening tests, because it is efficient and practical to create scripted spoken texts that meet predetermined test specifications. But because scripted spoken texts differ in a number of fundamental ways from unscripted spoken language, there are potential threats to validity when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Grammar
Liu, Yanmei; Zheng, Binghan – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
This study investigates the comparability of three parallel translation tasks selected from a College English Test Band-6 (CET-6) and explores the major linguistic features contributing to translation difficulty. Data obtained from the participants' subjective rating, eye-tracking, and performance evaluation were triangulated to measure the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Translation, Difficulty Level, Language Processing
Coniam, David; Lee, Tony; Milanovic, Michael; Pike, Nigel; Zhao, Wen – Language Education & Assessment, 2022
The calibration of test materials generally involves the interaction between empirical analysis and expert judgement. This paper explores the extent to which scale familiarity might affect expert judgement as a component of test validation in the calibration process. It forms part of a larger study that investigates the alignment of the…
Descriptors: Specialists, Language Tests, Test Validity, College Faculty
Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Tywoniw, Rurik L.; Chapman, Mark – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
Technology-enhanced items (TEIs) are innovative, computer-delivered test items that allow test takers to better interact with the test environment compared to traditional multiple-choice items (MCIs). The interactive nature of TEIs offer improved construct coverage compared with MCIs but little research exists regarding students' performance on…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Items, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language)
Karami, Hossein; Kouhpaee Nejad, Mohammadhossein; Nourzadeh, Saeed; Ahmadi Shirazi, Masoumeh – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This study was set to cross-validate a bilingual Persian-English version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) against the monolingual English version and compare Iranian EFL learners' performance on the two versions. Various bilingual versions of the VST have been developed based on the assumption that bilingual versions are not affected by the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Isbell, Daniel R. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of diagnostic language assessment is to identify learner strengths and weaknesses so that subsequent learning activity can be planned according to learner needs, a purpose which aligns with pedagogical recommendations to individualize instruction. Indeed, the extent to which diagnostic assessment can inform the selection of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Language Tests, Learning Activities, Korean
The Roles of Suprasegmental Features in Predicting English Oral Proficiency with an Automated System
Kang, Okim; Johnson, David – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
Suprasegmental features have received growing attention in the field of oral assessment. In this article we describe a set of computer algorithms that automatically scores the oral proficiency of non-native speakers using unconstrained English speech. The algorithms employ machine learning and 11 suprasegmental measures divided into four groups…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Predictive Validity, Predictor Variables, Oral English
Kaya, Elif; O'Grady, Stefan; Kalender, Ilker – Language Testing, 2022
Language proficiency testing serves an important function of classifying examinees into different categories of ability. However, misclassification is to some extent inevitable and may have important consequences for stakeholders. Recent research suggests that classification efficacy may be enhanced substantially using computerized adaptive…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Language Tests, Classification
Albaqami, Rashidah – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper reports on an experimental study addressing second language acquisition of English quantifiers by Arabic speakers. Due to several differences found between Arabic and English regarding types, meanings and functions of quantifiers, Arabic learners encounter challenges in mastering them properly. Unlike English, Arabic does not make lots…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Language, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning
