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Kim, Jeong-eun; Nam, Hosung – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Timed grammaticality judgment tests (TGJT) and oral elicited imitation tests (OEIT) are considered reliable and valid measures of implicit linguistic knowledge, but studies consistently observe better performances on the TGJT than the OEIT due to the different types of processing they require: comprehension for the TGJT and production for the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Sarandi, Hedayat – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
One of the major issues in SLA is developing language tests that could produce good measures of implicit knowledge. This study examines the validity of an English Elicited Imitation (EI) test as a measure of L2 implicit grammatical knowledge. Forty freshman university students in Turkey took a set of language tests: an EI test, two storytelling…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Pei-Hua; Fu, Jen-Tso – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
The Revised Preschool Language Assessment (RPLA) is a standardized measure for examining the language status of and determining potential language difficulties among preschoolers between 3 and 6 years old. To facilitate the applicability of the RPLA for use with Mandarin-speaking children, the present study adopted exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children, Language Tests, Standardized Tests
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Oliver, Tom; Hecker, Kent; Hausdorf, Peter A.; Conlon, Peter – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2014
The multiple mini-interview (MMI) used in health professional schools' admission processes is reported to assess multiple non-cognitive constructs such as ethical reasoning, oral communication, or problem evaluation. Though validation studies have been performed with total MMI scores, there is a paucity of information regarding how well MMI…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Health Education, Interviews, Ethics
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Yan, Xun; Cheng, Lixia; Ginther, April – Language Testing, 2019
This study investigated the construct validity of a local speaking test for international teaching assistants (ITAs) from a fairness perspective, by employing a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine the impact of task type and examinee first language (L1) background on the internal structure of the test. The test consists of…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Tests, Teaching Assistants, Culture Fair Tests
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Hatcher, Ryan C.; Breaux, Kristina C.; Liu, Xiaochen; Bray, Melissa A.; Ottone-Cross, Karen L.; Courville, Troy; Luria, Sarah R.; Langley, Susan Dulong – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
Children's oral language skills typically begin to develop sooner than their written language skills; however, the four language systems (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) then develop concurrently as integrated strands that influence one another. This research explored relationships between students' errors in language comprehension of…
Descriptors: Children, Error Patterns, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension
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Farnsworth, Timothy L. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This study examined the construct validity of the TOEFL iBT Speaking subsection for the purposes of international teaching assistant (ITA) certification, a purpose for which it was not specifically designed. The factor structure of the new TOEFL was compared with that of another language performance test in use at a major American research…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhao, Zhongbao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This study investigates the validity of the Diagnostic College English Speaking Test (DCEST) in the context of EFL teaching and learning in China. The experiment was conducted in three stages over the course of eight weeks at a national key university in China. By means of test administration and questionnaire survey, the researcher gathered…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Construct Validity, Language Tests, Diagnostic Tests
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Hoffman, LaVae M.; Loeb, Diane Frome; Brandel, Jayne; Gillam, Ronald B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: This study investigated the psychometric properties of 2 oral language measures that are commonly used for diagnostic purposes with school-age children who have language impairments. Method: Two hundred sixteen children with specific language impairment were assessed with the Test of Language Development--Primary, Third Edition (TOLD-P:3;…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Language Impairments, Factor Structure
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Sparfeldt, Jorn R.; Rost, Detlef H.; Baumeister, Ulrike M.; Christ, Oliver – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
The distinction of different test anxiety reactions (e.g., worry, emotionality) is well established. Recently, additional relevance has been given to school-subject-specific test anxiety factors. The present study explored a further aspect concerning the structure of test anxiety experiences, specifically oral versus written examination modes. A…
Descriptors: Validity, Measures (Individuals), Grade 9, Test Anxiety
Serafini, Ellen Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the second language (L2) development of adult learners of Spanish at three levels of proficiency during and after a semester of instruction. A fundamental goal was to identify cognitive and psychosocial individual differences (IDs) that can explain between-learner variation over time in order to expand our understanding of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Aptitude, Language Processing
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Chen, Zan; Goh, Christine – Teacher Development, 2014
Teacher knowledge, as an important cognitive basis of teaching, has attracted tremendous attention in educational research in the last few decades. This study examines whether teachers' self-perceived knowledge about oral English teaching differs with regard to their professional profiles in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Yaikhong, Kriangkrai; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study contributes to developing a Public Speaking Class Anxiety Scale (PSCAS) to measure anxiety in the EFL public speaking class in the Thai context. Items were adopted from previous scales: Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz et al. (1986); Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) and Personal…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Anxiety, Measures (Individuals), English (Second Language)
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Anthony, Jason L.; Aghara, Rachel G.; Solari, Emily J.; Dunkelberger, Martha J.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Liang, Lan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
Individual differences in abilities to form, access, and hone phonological representations of words are implicated in the development of oral and written language. This study addressed three important gaps in the literature concerning measurement of individual differences in phonological representation. First, we empirically examined the…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonology, Written Language, Preschool Children
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Eckes, Thomas; Grotjahn, Rudiger – Language Testing, 2006
What C-tests actually measure has been an issue of debate for many years. In the present research, the authors examined the hypothesis that C-tests measure general language proficiency. A total of 843 participants from four independent samples took a German C-test along with the TestDaF (Test of German as a Foreign Language). Rasch measurement…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Language Proficiency, German, Factor Analysis
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