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Neda Kianinezhad; Mohsen Kianinezhad – Language Education & Assessment, 2025
This study presents a comparative analysis of classical reliability measures, including Cronbach's alpha, test-retest, and parallel forms reliability, alongside modern psychometric methods such as the Rasch model and Mokken scaling, to evaluate the reliability of C-tests in language proficiency assessment. Utilizing data from 150 participants…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Reliability, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Anja Riemenschneider; Zarah Weiss; Pauline Schröter; Detmar Meurers – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
The linguistic characteristics of text productions depend on various factors, including individual language proficiency as well as the tasks used to elicit the production. To date, little attention has been paid to whether some writing tasks are more suitable than others to represent and differentiate students' proficiency levels. This issue is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Language Proficiency
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Putu Wia Rosita Dewi; Gusti Putu Arya Arimbawa; Harjuli Surya Putra; Abas Oya; I Made Candiasa; Aay Susilawati – International Journal of Language Education, 2025
This study provides an overview of the level of students' cognitive load in learning English in vocational schools. A quantitative descriptive study uses a cross-sectional survey conducted to measure the level of cognitive load of students in learning English in vocational schools. The subjects are 69 respondents who are students from one of the…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Noboru Sakai – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
This study aims to investigate ChatGPT's ability to comprehend input from nonnative speakers, specifically those learning English as a second language, with Japanese speakers serving as the model population. The experiment examines how ChatGPT evaluates the difficulty levels of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Rosa Maria Manchón; Sophie McBride; María Dolores Mellado Martínez; Olena Vasylets – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study examined the independent effects of working memory (WM) and the interactive effects of WM/L2 proficiency and WM/task complexity on L2 written performance. The study followed a within--between-participant factorial design, with two levels of task complexity as the within-participant variable and L2 proficiency and WM as…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
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Xiaoqin Shi; Nini Qu; Xiaoyuan Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Spoken English Competency (SEC) remains a critical weakness in English Proficiency (EP) of Chinese college students, particularly when compared with their English competency in writing and reading. Despite years of English learning since elementary school, Chinese college students often struggle to master SEC. Although previous studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Needs, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Hala Alsabatin; Waleed Nureldeen; Remon Eskander; Waleed Nasr – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Reading ability in English is decisive in determining the academic achievement of university students who study the English language, or any other subject in English. Extensive research has been conducted to explore whether ESL/EFL reading problems are language-specific or general reading problems. In this regard, previous research on the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Ability, Native Language
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Ali Akbar Boori; Mohammad Ghazanfari; Behzad Ghonsooly; Purya Baghaei – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
The purpose of this study was to compare the functioning of five restrictive CDMs, including DINA, DINO, A-CDM, LLM, and RRUM, against the G-DINA model to identify the best-fitting CDM which can better explain the interaction underlying the attributes of the reading comprehension section of an Iranian high-stakes language proficiency test. To this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Tests
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Wu Zhangli; Wang Xuewen; Lilliati Ismail; Norhakimah Khaiessa Ahmad; Omer HassanAli Mahfoodh – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined the challenges of English learning encountered by Chinese international students in a Malaysian university, as well as the contributing factors and strategies students employ to cope with these challenges. A total of 60 Chinese international students (51.7% male and 48.3% female) participated in this study, with an average stay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Study Abroad
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Jinfen Xu; Yumei Fan – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study is aimed to identify the effects of task complexity on first language (L1) use and the functions it may serve when two groups of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) work on collaborative tasks. Twenty-four pairs of Chinese EFL learners from two universities were assigned to a lower-proficiency and a higher-proficiency group,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level
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Nobuhiro Kamiya – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study examined the effects of watching gestures and lip movement on second language (English) listening comprehension. The participants were 30 high and 22 low proficient learners of English. There were six listening tasks combining two variables: modality and difficulty. The modality consisted of three types of assessments: Body (the upper…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nihat Polat; Laura Mahalingappa; Rae Mancilla – AERA Open, 2024
Language proficiency policies act as critical gatekeepers for multilingual international students (MIS) who intend to pursue an education at English-medium universities. The current study revisits the question of the predictive validity of a standardized English proficiency exam--International English Language Testing System (IELTS)--in comparison…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Syntax, Difficulty Level
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Yuzhu Xia – Discover Education, 2024
This study delves into the predictors of English proficiency among middle school students in China, utilizing the rich dataset provided by the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS). By integrating multilevel modeling and Support Vector Regression (SVR), this research scrutinizes a broad spectrum of factors at the individual, family, class, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Yumei Zou; Sathiamoorthy Kannan; Gurnam Kaur Sidhu – SAGE Open, 2024
Task design has been viewed to be essential in the context of language assessment. This study investigated whether increasing task complexity affects learners' writing performance. It employs three writing tasks with different levels of complexity based on Robinson's Componential Framework. A cohort of 278 participants was selected using a simple…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, College Students, Foreign Countries, Writing Achievement
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Andrew Schenck – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2024
Form-Focused Instruction (FFI) has been extensively studied, yet past experimental results are often inconsistent or even contradictory. Overly simplistic examinations of grammatical complexity and learner characteristics (e.g., L2 English proficiency) may have fueled the confusion, limiting understanding of how different FFI techniques can be…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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