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Direct linkTakanori Sato – Language Testing, 2024
Assessing the content of learners' compositions is a common practice in second language (L2) writing assessment. However, the construct definition of content in L2 writing assessment potentially underrepresents the target competence in content and language integrated learning (CLIL), which aims to foster not only L2 proficiency but also critical…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests
Davidson, Simon – Language Testing, 2022
This paper investigates what matters to medical domain experts when setting standards on a language for specific purposes (LSP) English proficiency test: the Occupational English Test's (OET) writing sub-test. The study explores what standard-setting participants value when making performance judgements about test candidates' writing responses,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Writing Tests, Standard Setting, Health Personnel
Sahan, Özgür; Razi, Salim – Language Testing, 2020
This study examines the decision-making behaviors of raters with varying levels of experience while assessing EFL essays of distinct qualities. The data were collected from 28 raters with varying levels of rating experience and working at the English language departments of different universities in Turkey. Using a 10-point analytic rubric, each…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Essays, Writing Evaluation, Evaluators
Löwenadler, John – Language Testing, 2019
This study aims to investigate patterns of variation in the interplay of L2 language ability and general reading comprehension skills in L2 reading, by comparing item-level effects of test-takers' results on L1 and L2 reading comprehension tests. The material comes from more than 500,000 people tested on L1 (Swedish) and L2 (English) in the…
Descriptors: Swedish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Barkaoui, Khaled – Language Testing, 2011
Think-aloud protocols (TAPs) are frequently used in research on essay rating processes. However, there are very few empirical studies of the completeness of TAP data and the effects of this technique on rater performance (i.e., rating processes and outcomes). This study aims to start to address this research gap. As part of a larger study on rater…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Rating Scales, Essays, English (Second Language)
Plakans, Lia – Language Testing, 2009
As integrated tasks become more common in assessing writing for academic purposes, it is necessary to investigate how test takers approach these tasks. The present study explores the processes of test takers undertaking reading-to-write tasks developed for a university English placement exam. Think-aloud protocols and interviews of…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Protocol Analysis, Writing Tests, Writing Processes
