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Hristo Kyuchukov; Jill de Villiers; Yanwan Zhu; Iris Zhong – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
The paper presents the first comprehensive look at the language development of Romani-speaking children from resource-poor Roma communities in several European countries. 250 participants aged 3- to 10-years participated. The experimental tasks assess knowledge in eight key areas of grammar and morphology, including fast mapping of novel items.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Minority Groups, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
Angel M. Y. Lin – Language and Education, 2024
Upholding a critical, ethical, multilingual stance presents numerous challenges amidst a myriad of institutional, infrastructural, and societal pressures. Despite significant breakthroughs, such as translanguaging theories and pedagogies and the evolution of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) principles, the journey towards a more inclusive and…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Ethics
Rod Ellis; Carsten Roever; Natsuko Shintani; Yan Zhu – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Taking a psycholinguistic perspective, this book investigates how second language (L2) learners' pragmatic abilities in English can be measured. It complements and extends earlier work on the testing of implicit and explicit grammar. The authors present a set of tests they developed using both well-established methods of measuring pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
This book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue. What makes applied linguistic concept formation possible? A number of elementary concepts and ideas are so basic to the discipline that they can neither be…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Instructional Design
Jieun Kim; Daniel Richard Isbell – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
The ACTFL Assessment of Performance Toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL, https://www.actfl.n.d.org/assessments/k-12-assessments/aappl) assesses proficiency in 11 languages for students in grades 3 to 12 and is often used to award the Seal of Biliteracy. While arguments for the valid interpretation and uses of the AAPPL have previously been…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Dongil Shin – Language Testing, 2024
This paper addresses the intersection of testing and policy, situating test-driven impact and validation within the context of policy-led educational reform in Korea. I will briefly review the existing validation models. Then, arguing for an expansion of the conventional conceptualization of consequential validity research, I use Fairclough's…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis, Test Validity, Educational Change
Ardeshir Geranpayeh – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
The recent surge in the popularity of Large Language Models (LLM) for language assessment underscores the growing significance of cost-effective language evaluation in our increasingly digitalized society. This paper posits that the application of computational psychometrics can enable the incorporation of technology into language assessment,…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Psychometrics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tenison, Caitlin; Ling, Guangming; McCulla, Laura – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
In this paper we use historic score-reporting records and test-taker metadata to inform data-driven recommendations that support international students in their choice of undergraduate institutions for study in the United States. We investigate the use of Structural Topic Modeling (STM) as a context-aware, probabilistic recommendation method that…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, College Choice, Models
París, Luis; Celi, Maria Alejandra; Tabullo, Ángel; Godoy, Mahayana C. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
The English Resultative Construction (ERC) is a satellite-framed structure with no identical equivalent in Spanish. In a series of studies, we analyzed and compared recognition (acceptability judgment task) and comprehension (sentence comprehension task) of three ERC subtypes with the English Depictive Construction (EDC) (which has a Spanish…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Dave Kush; Anne Dahl; Filippa Lindahl – Second Language Research, 2024
Embedded questions (EQs) are islands for filler--gap dependency formation in English, but not in Norwegian. Kush and Dahl (2022) found that first language (L1) Norwegian participants often accepted filler-gap dependencies into EQs in second language (L2) English, and proposed that this reflected persistent transfer from Norwegian of the functional…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Norwegian, Native Language, Grammar
Karen Jin Wu; Yolanda Tingyi Mei – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Test de Connaissance du Français (TCF), a French knowledge test for any non-native speakers of French, is an official language exam for the certificate of proficiency in French designed by France Éducation international (FIE) and accredited by le Ministère Français de l'Éducation Nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports (French Ministry of National…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Andy Jiahao Liu; Riley Yiting Peng – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
This paper presents a critical evaluation of the English Test for International Communication (ETIC), a large-scale, computer-based, and criterion-referenced English language proficiency test developed by the China Language Assessment in 2016. The ETIC test battery comprises five categories: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Superior, and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English, Justice, English (Second Language)
Gopal Prasad Pandey – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2024
This paper explores the role of language testing in English education, focusing on its theoretical foundations, methodologies and practical applications. It analyzes how language tests fulfill various purposes, such as placement, progress monitoring, achievement evaluation and diagnostic feedback, underlining the importance of a critical…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Assessing the Speaking Proficiency of L2 Chinese Learners: Review of the Hanyu Shuiping Kouyu Kaoshi
Li, Albert W. – Language Testing, 2023
The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) is a multi-level, multi-purpose Chinese proficiency test developed by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation (previously the Office of Chinese Language Council International and, henceforth, referred to by its colloquial name "Hanban"). It assesses reading, writing, and listening skills of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Jamie L. Schissel; Huseyin Uysal – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
This editorial explores the intersection of equity and validity in language assessment, focusing on language-minoritized test-takers. Recognizing that tests often perpetuate inequitable power dynamics, our special issue, 'Equity Orientations for Validity Frameworks: Exploring the Intersections of Language and Assessment for Language-Minoritized…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Minorities, Test Validity, Power Structure