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Taylor, Lynda – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
Looking back to the language testing world of the 1980s in the United Kingdom, we need to be aware that how we perceive or remember ourselves to have been then--whether as individual language testing academics or as corporate language testing organisations--will be shaped by multiple influences. Although we may have been present at and shared in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Testing
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Archila-Suerte, Pilar; Zevin, Jason; Bunta, Ferenc; Hernandez, Arturo E. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Sensorimotor processing in children and higher-cognitive processing in adults could determine how non-native phonemes are acquired. This study investigates how age-of-acquisition (AOA) and proficiency-level (PL) predict native-like perception of statistically dissociated L2 categories, i.e., within-category and between-category. In a similarity…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Research Methodology, Multidimensional Scaling, Classification