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An Automatized Semantic Analysis of Two Large-Scale Listening Tests: A Corpus-Based Study

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Yufan Zhao; Vahid Aryadoust – Language Testing, 2025

This study examined the semantic features of the simulated mini-lectures in the listening sections of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) based on automatized semantic analysis to explore the content validity of the two tests. Two study corpora were utilized, the IELTS…

Descriptors: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Academic Language, Second Language Learning

Using Corpus Linguistics to Examine the Extrapolation Inference in the Validity Argument for a High-Stakes Speaking Assessment

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LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Staples, Shelley – Language Testing, 2017

Investigations of the validity of a number of high-stakes language assessments are conducted using an argument-based approach, which requires evidence for inferences that are critical to score interpretation (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008b; Kane, 2013). The current study investigates the extrapolation inference for a high-stakes test of…

Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences