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Roya Shoahosseini; Purya Baghaei; Hossein Khodabakhshzadeh; Hamid Ashraf – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
C-Test is a gap-filling test designed to measure first and second language proficiency. Over the past four decades, researchers have shown the fit of C-Test data to parametric item response theory (IRT) models, but no study so far has shown the fit of C-Tests to nonparametric IRT models. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the ongoing…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Nonparametric Statistics, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Barno Sayfutdinovna Abdullaeva; Fidel Çakmak; Diyorjon Abdullaev – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This research explores how paper and online assessments (OA) can affect EFL learners' personal development variables such as self-esteem, mindfulness, demotivation, and language learning development. Sixty intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) students participated in the current research and were randomly grouped into the experimental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Development, Outcomes of Education, Test Format
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Nemati, Majid; Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad; Mohebbi, Hassan – Language Testing in Asia, 2019
This study investigates the effect of teacher's written corrective feedback (WCF) on acquisition of explicit and implicit knowledge of simple past tense by language learners. Eighty-seven Iranian beginner learners of English participated in this study. The participants were randomly assigned to three groups: focused direct WCF, focused indirect…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Feedback (Response), Written Language, Second Language Learning