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Tipaya Peungcharoenkun; Budi Waluyo – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: Research in the field of writing pedagogy within higher education has extensively examined the significant roles that feedback plays in the development of students' writing skills. However, comparative studies that investigate the efficacy of teacher-provided written and oral feedback, both with and without the aid of technology,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Technology Uses in Education
Kyle, Kristopher; Eguchi, Masaki; Choe, Ann Tai; LaFlair, Geoff – Language Testing, 2022
In the realm of language proficiency assessments, the domain description inference and the extrapolation inference are key components of a validity argument. Biber et al.'s description of the lexicogrammatical features of the spoken and written registers in the T2K-SWAL corpus has served as support for the TOEFL iBT test's domain description and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Written Language, Speech Communication, Inferences
Ünver, Meral Melek; Sahin, Murat Dogan – Online Submission, 2017
University education is characterized by the atmosphere and opportunities offered to students to help master new skills, develop existing ones, realize and accept cultural diversity, hence broaden their horizons. Compared to past, students now have numerous alternatives either in the university in their home country or abroad. According to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries
Llanes, Àngels; Serrano, Raquel – Language Learning Journal, 2017
Given the growing importance of English as a lingua franca, this study examines which context (classroom instruction in the students' home country vs. studying abroad in an English-speaking country) better facilitates the acquisition of English by learners of different ages: children, adolescents and adults. Participants (N = 197) completed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
Pérez-Vidal, Carmen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Undoubtedly, different learning contexts offer different opportunities for foreign language practice. This article focuses on context effects, and reports on the findings of the "Study Abroad and Language Acquisition" (SALA) project, which has examined in depth the impact of two learning contexts, SA within the European Community Action…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Accuracy
Arkoudis, Sophie; Baik, Chi; Bexley, Emmaline; Doughney, Lachlan – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2014
This report presents the "English Language Proficiency" (ELP) and Employability Framework", which has been designed to inform and support higher education institutions' (HEIs) policies and practices on ELP and graduate employability. The "Framework" was developed through a review of the national and international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Employment Potential

Buck, Gary – ELT Journal, 1989
Examination of the reliability and validity of paper-and-pencil pronunciation tests of English as a second language in Osaka (Japan) showed very low reliability. Correlations with more direct measures of pronunciation showed very low validity of written pronunciation tests. Sample tests are appended. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Tests

Sweedler-Brown, Carol O. – College ESL, 1993
The effect of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) specific sentence-level errors was examined using 18 randomly chosen essays representing the range of ESL writing found in most large testing situations. Results suggest that graders with insufficient training in evaluating ESL essays differ in their judgment of the weight assigned to ESL error,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Essays
Hall, Christopher – IRAL, 1993
To study the adequacy of the brief oral examination format as a basis for assessing oral skills, the study compared samples of 15-minute oral exams with 3-hour written exam results by the same students. The resultant average size of oral samples was about 77% of that of written samples, with good comparability, leading to useful conclusions about…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Language Proficiency

Sherrard, Carol – System, 1989
The findings from research on written and oral summarization are discussed under three headings: summarizers' strategies, improving summarizers' performance, and the assessment of summary quality. Objective measures of summary quality used by researchers are described, and ways these measures could be adapted for use in higher education assessment…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Expressive Language, Higher Education

Bayliss, Doreen; Vignola, Marie-Josee – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2000
Examines the background factors that may be related to the French proficiency development of candidates applying for the foreign and second language teaching option at the University of Ottawa. Candidates have to pass tests of oral and written French, and this study sought to determine what makes a candidate successful on the test. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, French, Higher Education
Arnaud, Pierre J. L. – 1984
This study investigates the validity of second language vocabulary tests, and whether or not test scores accurately reflect the quality of language behavior in real-life situations. It attempts to prove the validity of vocabulary testing by comparing test scores to indices of vocabulary richness in second language production. The student subjects…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Hannah, Elaine P. – 1987
Twenty-two junior-year college students were tested at a college language, speech and hearing clinic. A statistical analysis was performed on their scores on the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery and on oral and written language samples. Results were compared with those of a group of 25 normal college students in their junior year.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Comparative Analysis

Matthews-Bresky, R. J. H. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1978
The multiple choice technique can test written and oral comprehension and linguistic competence at beginning and intermediate levels. Examples of test items concerning sounds, stress, vocabulary, and structures are presented, and brief comments on the items are included. (SW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Instruction
Cataldo, Donna; Arsenault, Joseph – 1987
A study examined the identification of distinct subgroups of learning-disabled young adults based on their ability to generate written language. Two subgroups of learning-disabled college students, the language strong/visually weak (N=22) and the visually strong/language weak (N=10), were identified based on evaluation of 32 essays. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Style, College Students, Expressive Language
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