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Sasithorn Limgomolvilas; Patsawut Sukserm – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The assessment of English speaking in EFL environments can be inherently subjective and influenced by various factors beyond linguistic ability, including choice of assessment criteria, and even the rubric type. In classroom assessment, the type of rubric recommended for English speaking tasks is the analytical rubric. Driven by three aims, this…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Frederick J. Poole; Matthew D. Coss; Jody Clarke-Midura – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
This study explored the use of stealth assessments within a digital game to assess second language (L2) Chinese learners' reading comprehension. Log data tracking learners' in-game behaviors from a game designed for Chinese dual language immersion classrooms (Poole et al., 2022) were used to construct Bayesian Belief Networks to model reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Game Based Learning
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Mohd Nazim; Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi; Abdul-Hafeed Fakih – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
Pedagogy and assessment practices have always been the two pertinent domains of the EFL world, and there is a voice, which supports swapping the attention from teacher-centered to student-centered. Studies are available to research the two practices separately but researching them, with the view that they complement each other, as an integrated…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
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Yao Lu; Ksenia Gnevsheva – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Previous research that explores the effect of ethnicity in the perception of speaker accentedness and personality traits often finds that Asian appearance contributes to a more accented and less competent impression. Importantly, most of the work done to date employed only Caucasian first language-speaking listeners; moreover, ethnicity and gender…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Korean
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Ismail, Sayed M.; Heydarnejad, Tahereh – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
Effective instruction and assessment are greatly affected by many factors. The ever-growing literature on assessment outlined some cognitive, social, and emotional factors that directly or indirectly influence the learners' academic achievement. In spite of the rosy literature on assessment, the possible interplay among the Core of Self-assessment…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Efficacy, Self Concept Measures
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Vajak, Mahsa; Izadpanah, Siros; Naserian, Javad – Cogent Education, 2021
The globalized era together with demographic, geographical, and structural changes to English has reshaped the landscape of English language teaching (ELT) and emphasized the importance of preparing language learners for intercultural communication. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the relations of language and culture. The aim of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ocampo, Darrel M. – Online Submission, 2023
The study identified the pragmatic competence level of the second language (L2) learners through Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) administered to purposively selected 40 first-year education students. A modified questionnaire based on Survey for Academic English Language Exposure (SAELE) was used to determine the effectiveness of academic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics, Interpersonal Competence
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Johnson, Carol; Cardoso, Walcir; Zuercher, Beau; Brannen, Kathleen; Springer, Suzanne – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study examined the use of a popular Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Google Voice Typing (GVT), to automatically assess English as second language pronunciation. It aimed to answer the following question: What is the relationship between GVT-rated scores and human-rated scores? To answer this question, we compared audio recordings of 56…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
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Ko, HyunSook – English Teaching, 2023
This study compared Korean adult learners' English speech in dialogic and monologic tasks, measuring 57 college students' oral proficiency in terms of holistic and analytic grades. The statistical analyses were focused on two questions: (1) how much do the holistic grades of oral proficiency and analytic grades of the four linguistic features…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Holistic Approach, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Han, Chao; Lu, Xiaolei – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The use of translation and interpreting (T&I) in the language learning classroom is commonplace, serving various pedagogical and assessment purposes. Previous utilization of T&I exercises is driven largely by their potential to enhance language learning, whereas the latest trend has begun to underscore T&I as a crucial skill to be…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Correlation, Language Processing
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Muho, Anita; Taraj, Gentjana – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2022
This study aimed at exploring the impact of formative assessment practices on student motivation for learning the English language. As Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, and Wiliam (2005) stated, education needs to change its function from collecting the results of right or wrong, and to encourage teachers in gathering information that will affect the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Evaluation, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language)
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Leung, Constant; Evans, Michael; Liu, Yongcan – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The language assessment issues discussed in this paper are set against the backdrop of the English as an additional language (EAL) provision for students from ethnic and linguistic minority communities in the publicly funded school education system in England. We will first provide a background description of the educational response to linguistic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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AlAdwani, Amel; AlFadley, Anam – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
COVID-19 pandemic made a sudden shift of all ages to online learning and distance learning instructions. However, there is a paucity of research to address the possible impacts of the pedagogical shift integrated into new online platforms on learning, interaction, and assessment, especially in higher education settings from the vantage point of…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Li, Yanjie; Brantmeier, Cindy; Gao, Yanming; Hogrebe, Mark – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
In second language (L2) reading strategy research, two concerns need addressing: (1) the discrepancy in assessing strategy use between written surveys and verbal reports, and (2) the effect of using strategies on readers' comprehension outcomes when different types of comprehension tasks are utilized. The present study addressed these concerns by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Brown, Alan V.; Plonsky, Luke; Teimouri, Yasser – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
Much of applied linguistics research has been concerned with classroom-based second language (L2) development as it offers an ideal setting for examining the institutional ecology of L2 learning and teaching. However, scholars have continued to call for greater attention to the operationalization of constructs, selection of valid assessments, and…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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