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Hussein, Rasha Abed; Sabit, Shaker Holh; Alwan, Merriam Ghadhanfar; Wafqan, Hussam Mohammed; Baqer, Abeer Ameen; Ali, Muneam Hussein; Hachim, Safa K.; Sahi, Zahraa Tariq; AlSalami, Huda Takleef; Sulaiman, Bahaa Aldin Fawzi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Dictation is a traditional technique for both teaching and testing overall language ability and listening comprehension. In a dictation, a passage is read aloud by the teacher and examinees write down what they hear. Due to the peculiar form of dictations, psychometric analysis of dictations is challenging. In a dictation, there is no clear…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Verbal Communication, Teaching Methods, Language Skills
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Fung, Daniel; Macaro, Ernesto – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The language learner strategies research field has often tried to identify the good language learner (GLL) by distinguishing more proficient from less proficient learners. However the notion of 'good' may be problematic without taking into account an individual's linguistic knowledge (LK). This article foregrounds LK in relation to strategy use in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Suzukida, Yui; Saito, Kazuya – Language Teaching Research, 2021
Building up on Munro and Derwing, the current study set out to re-examine and generalize the Functional Load (FL) principle (Brown, 1988) as a tool to identify a set of relatively crucial segmental features for successful understanding in L2 communication. In Experiment 1, 40 Japanese learners of English in English-as-Foreign-Language settings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
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Cosenza, Luana; Masillo, Paola – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Our paper aims at analysing the linguistic "features" produced by Arabic learners of Italian as a foreign language. There are published studies of common errors for Arab students of Italian (Della Puppa, 2006; Giacalone Ramat et al., 2001). However, this study introduces the standardized language assessment, namely the CILS test of…
Descriptors: Italian, Teaching Methods, Language Tests, Error Patterns
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Achim, Andre; Marquis, Alexandra – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Studies of bilingualism sometimes require healthy subjects to be assessed for proficiency at auditory sentence processing in their second language (L2). The Syntactic Comprehension task of the Bilingual Aphasia Test could satisfy this need. For ease and uniformity of application, we automated its English (Paradis, M., Libben, G., and Hummel, K.…
Descriptors: Aphasia, French, Bilingualism, Language Tests
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Denham, Patricia A. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Chastain, Kenneth – 1980
This study presents a synthesis of major dimensions of the second language teaching-learning process. The first four chapters survey some factors which are considered important in this process and examine what is known and unknown about each one. Subsequent chapters deal with the following problems: (1) language learners' errors, (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)