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Burrell, Andrew; Beard, Roger – Education 3-13, 2018
There has been little research into 'language play', the manipulation of language for enjoyment, in children's narrative writing. The unprompted language play of 36 children was investigated in their writing of an imaginative story. The sample comprised three attainment sub-groups from a larger repeat-design quantitative study of writing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Language Usage, Imagination, Elementary School Students
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Cooper, Charles – English Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Research, Evaluation, Language Research
VALETTE, REBECCA M. – 1966
AUDIOLINGUAL TEACHING METHODS HAVE CREATED THE NEED FOR NEW TESTING TECHNIQUES IN THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS OF LISTENING, SPEAKING, AND WRITING. VARIOUS CURRENT METHODS AND SPECIFIC STANDARDIZED TESTS FOR EVALUATING EACH OF THE SKILLS, INCLUDING PURE SKILLS TESTS WHICH UTILIZE ONLY ONE SKILL IN BOTH STIMULUS AND RESPONSE AND HYBRID SKILLS TESTS…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Skills, Language Research, Language Tests
Ricciardelli, Lina A., And Others – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Ten metalinguistic tasks of intellectual development were studied in five- and six-year-old children using factor analysis. Results suggested that metalinguistic awareness can be viewed as developing in association with other intellectual activities, and that it can be conceived as a unitary construct. (55 references) (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Tests, Factor Analysis, Grade 1
Eddy, Peter A. – 1981
Students in the eleventh grade in three Montgomery County, Maryland high schools were the subjects of a study to determine the effect of foreign language study on performance on the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The following results were reported: (1) when verbal ability is controlled, students who study foreign language…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Benefits, Educational Research, High Schools
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Krashen, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 2005
A new urban legend claims, "As a result of the state dropping bilingual education, test scores in California skyrocketed." Krashen disputes this theory, pointing out that other factors offer more logical explanations of California's recent improvements in SAT-9 scores. He discusses research on the effects of California's Proposition 227,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, State Legislation, Immersion Programs, Bilingualism
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Traugott, Elizabeth Closs; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
Two members and a former member of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Policy Council respond to Raimes' concerns about the TOEFL Test of Written English, particularly regarding the Educational Testing Service's research agenda and its effect on English-as-a-Second-Language instruction and graduate school admission. (17 references)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Equal Education, Essays, Graduate Study
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Nakamura, Yuji – Educational Studies, 1997
The process of designing and validating a test of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) speaking skills is described. The study examined: (1) whether nine traits (pronunciation, grammar, discourse, fluency, content, vocabulary, comprehensibility, interactional competence, sociolinguistic competence) are relevant and separable parts of speaking…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiotape Recordings, Construct Validity, English (Second Language)
Garrott, Carl L. – 2000
This study provides some evidence of significant differences between the Redundancy and Bottom-to-Top Models in sequencing four-semester elementary and intermediate Spanish courses using the ACT Spanish Test Form 1 as the dependent variable. T-test results of independent samples (unequal variances model) were 0.056. Results also indicated that…
Descriptors: College Students, High School Students, Higher Education, Interviews
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Rohr-Sendlmeier, Una M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
To find out which context variables relate to improvement in the second-language acquisition of migrant children in West Germany, a longitudinal study with a follow-up design with Turkish elementary school students was set up. The study was carried out using standardized tests and by conducting interviews with the pupils, their parents and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, German, Interviews
Barnes, Nancy Marie – 1983
To analyze and compare specific oral communication behaviors of primary school pupils who score high on reading and language tests with those who score low, a study was conducted on approximatley 200 students who were classified as (1) high language, (2) high reading, (3) low language, or (4) low reading according to their scores on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Tsui, Amy B. M.; Fullilove, John – Applied Linguistics, 1998
This study investigated whether top-down or bottom-up cognitive processing was more important in listening comprehension in large-scale English-as-a-Second-Language tests administered to secondary school students in Hong Kong over a period of seven years. Results suggest that bottom-up processing was more important than top-down processing in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Information Processing
Coniam, David – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990
A study investigated the validity of a second-language student's actual speed of delivery of a passage read aloud as an indicator of second-language fluency. The study, conducted in Hong Kong with 83 secondary school students, used the oral dialogue test in a standardized secondary school-leaving examination. The dialogues were timed and the rate…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
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Kenkel, James M.; Tucker, Richard W. – World Englishes, 1989
Outlines an application of theoretical understandings of institutionalized or nativized varieties of English to the practical concern of English-as-a-Second-Language programs, including testing, placement, and pedagogy. (29 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Essays, Foreign Countries
Carroll, John B.; And Others – 1959
This study investigates the feasibility of using cloze procedure test items (in which a student supplies a word, letter, or phrase to fill a gap in a continuous text) for the written College Board foreign language achievement tests. An introduction which defines the problem, traces its history, and presents the overall design of the study is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingualism, Cloze Procedure, Educational Research
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