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Direct linkFatih Yavuz; Özgür Çelik; Gamze Yavas Çelik – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
This study investigates the validity and reliability of generative large language models (LLMs), specifically ChatGPT and Google's Bard, in grading student essays in higher education based on an analytical grading rubric. A total of 15 experienced English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors and two LLMs were asked to evaluate three student…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Yang, Chengsong; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – English Language Education, 2023
This book addresses the validity of think-aloud protocols (TAPs) in L2 writing research through a mixed methods study and proposes effective approaches for their valid implementation. The book uncovers the reactive effects that TAPs have on L2 writing performance and processes, and examines how individual factors moderate this reactivity. It…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Sudina, Ekaterina; Plonsky, Luke – Modern Language Journal, 2021
The emerging interest in grit, referred to as sustained perseverance and passion for reaching long-term goals and conceptualized as a facet of conscientiousness, has shown that language-specific grit is positively linked to foreign language (FL) achievement. Evidence from recent studies on intended effort and academic buoyancy--constructs…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Shakeela K. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2024
Life skills education is important for the holistic development of individuals, the progress of the country, and for navigating the complexities of the modern world. This study aimed to examine the status of life skills among secondary students. The sample consisted of 380 secondary students from Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka, India,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Daily Living Skills, Dravidian Languages, English (Second Language)
Teimouri, Yasser; Tabandeh, Farhad; Tahmouresi, Somayeh – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Defined as a combination of perseverance and passion for long-term goals, grit has been hypothesized to be as important as talent in determining the success of students, adding incremental predictive validity for achievement criteria above and beyond natural or inherent ability. In this study, we tested this hypothesis by comparing the effects of…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Persistence
Lu, Xiaofei,; Wu, Jifeng – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study proposed a set of measures for assessing noun phrase (NP) complexity in second language (L2) Chinese writing and compared the predictive power of these measures for L2 Chinese writing quality to that of a set of syntactic complexity measures based on the topic-comment unit (TC-unit). Our data consisted of 101 narratives written by…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Syntax, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Download full textShijun, Chen – International Education Studies, 2022
The high-stakes College English Test (CET), developed, administered, and reformed over the last 20 years, has received great attention in the aspect of washback on teaching and learning from previous research. Very few studies explored its consequences in the workplace domain--being used as a screening lever. This research aimed to 1) compare…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Use, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Noam 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
Al-Obaydi, Liqaa Habeb; Pikhart, Marcel – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Intercultural communication plays a crucial role in second language (L2) acquisition as it always happens in the context of another, usually very different culture. The present study sheds light on the benefits of using documentary videos in teaching intercultural communication to young students and how they can affect students' development of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Documentaries, Intercultural Communication, Video Technology
Pilar Rodríguez-Arancón; María Bobadilla-Pérez; Alberto Fernández-Costales – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to delve into the interplay between didactic audiovisual translation (DAT) and computer-assisted language learning (CALL), exploring their combined impact on the development of intercultural competence (IC) among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Design/methodology/approach: Using a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Zhang, Ci; Xu, XiaoShu; Zhang, Yunfeng – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This study presents the validation process of a listening test based on a communicative language test proposed by Bachman (Fundamental considerations in language testing, 1990). It was administered to third-grade high school students by the sixteen Korean Provincial Offices of Education for Curriculum and Evaluation in September 2012 to assess…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension Tests
Nguyen, Huu Thanh Minh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Combining Bachman's (1990) conceptualization of content validity with Messick's (1989) unifying model of construct validity, this study attempted to fill the gap in researching content validation in the context of a university reading achievement test by (a) examining traditional content validity evidence and (b) analyzing the test scores to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Achievement Tests, Majors (Students)
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
Al-Hoorie, Ali H.; Vitta, Joseph P. – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This report presents a review of the statistical practices of 30 journals representative of the second language field. A review of 150 articles showed a number of prevalent statistical violations including incomplete reporting of reliability, validity, non-significant results, effect sizes, and assumption checks as well as making inferences from…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reliability
