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Holden Kenneth G. Alcazaren – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
Many educational and language scholars in the field have remarked the need to strengthen assessment and testing academic courses in the undergraduate teacher education programs, more specifically in highlighting the importance of language assessment literacy (LAL). With several findings indicating insufficient or impractical assessment components…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Sameer Aljabri – Cogent Education, 2024
Previous studies have consistently demonstrated that students typically favor collaborative retrieval practice over practicing individually. However, there is a gap in research regarding how EFL students specifically engage in collaborative retrieval practice compared to individual methods. This study aimed to investigate Saudi EFL students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Nakata, Tatsuya; Tada, Saori; Mclean, Stuart; Kim, Young Ae – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Research suggests that testing (or retrieval) has the potential to enhance second language (L2) vocabulary learning. Given the positive effects of testing, how L2 vocabulary learning from tests can be optimized is an important question. One way to increase the benefits of testing may be to use cumulative tests, where not only recently studied but…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development, Language Tests
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Uchihara, Takumi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
The study investigates how the test modality (spoken or written) of classroom weekly quizzes influences vocabulary learning strategies and facilitates learning the spoken and written knowledge of form-meaning connection in L2 words. Japanese university students in academic English courses were assigned to two experimental conditions (spoken test…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, College Students
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Azizi, Zeinab; Ismail, Sayed M. – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
There has been a growing call for listening to test-takers' voices across diverse assessment contexts. Within classroom assessment (CA), however, test-takers' voices on ethics are under-researched in the high school context of Iran. Hence, this study purported to disclose Iranian high school test-takers' (n = 15) perceptions of the ethical…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Güngör, Müzeyyen Nazli; Güngör, Mustafa Akin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
This article explores the implementation of an online high-stakes language proficiency test during the COVID-19 pandemic through a narrative inquiry of a test-designer, Eda (pseudonym). Situated in the context of Turkish higher education, this study examines Eda's narrative accounts with regard to the development of test adaptation and…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Testing
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Panachanok Chanwaiwit; Lalida Wiboonwachara – rEFLections, 2025
Chiang Mai Rajabhat University Test of English Proficiency (CMRU-TEP) is a required English proficiency test for all CMRU students before graduation. Despite its meticulous design, there is an opportunity for students to improve their scores through focused efforts and targeted support. This study employs an explanatory sequential mixed-methods…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Sivaci, Seda – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate proficiency tests of the universities in Turkey in line with the ALTE Quality Assurance Checklists in terms of four dimensions: a. Test construction, b. Administration & Logistics c. Grading, Marking Results and d. Test Analysis & Post-examination Review. The study took place in four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Educational Quality
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Gamze Sariyildiz Canli; I?smail Firat Altay – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
The present research reports the findings of the study that sought to examine the in-service training needs of in-service EFL teachers in the language testing and assessment field. With this aim, four domains of language testing and assessment field were identified which were classroom-focused LTA, knowledge of testing and assessment, purposes of…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Limerick, Nicholas – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2020
In Ecuador directors of Indigenous education administer a Kichwa proficiency exam as a requirement for employment. This article considers promises and challenges of the exam, such as how standardized language ideologies manifest in it, and what it says about how institutional knowledge is classed, racialized, and urbanized. Furthermore, though…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Language, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Chen, Jiliang; Li, Lanlan; Shen, Yalin; Li, Haoxia – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study is intended to explore the influence of partners' L2 proficiency on test-takers' performance and on their interaction patterns in paired oral assessment, and it tries to analyze the underlying causes on the basis of Vygotsky's theory of the zone of proximal development (ZPD) and Storch's patterns of interaction. An experiment including…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Oral Language, Sociocultural Patterns
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Na Liu; Jeferd Saong – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
The study examined the use of the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in assessing Chinese as a second language and the challenges faced by teachers in the Chinese Language Scholarship (CLS) program. The Concurrent Triangulation Mixed Method Research was used in the study in which qualitative and quantitative data are collected simultaneously,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
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Darabi Bazvand, Ali – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
It is acknowledged that assessment ethics is an integral part of teacher education. Unlike sizable published research on students' perceptions of assessment in higher education, very little is reported on student teachers' perceptions of assessment ethics across university-based teacher education programs. This study aimed to explore Teaching…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liao, Ray J. T. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Jessica Wu is Research and Development Program Director at the Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC) in Taipei, Taiwan. Jessica has been deeply involved in the development and validation of the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) in addition to a number of other foreign language testing programs. Her research focuses on speaking…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Interviews
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Rajab Esfandiari; Mohammad Hossein Arefian – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Computer-assisted language assessment literacy (LAL) has gained momentum in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching since computer-based education became particularly common in language education. As EFL teachers play a critical role in administering computer-assisted language assessments, Iranian EFL teachers need to learn, relearn, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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