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Fuyu Kong; Yanli Zhang – SAGE Open, 2024
To explore the washback of the HSK on students learning Chinese as a Second Language (CSL), the study surveyed 1,616 SCL students from 25 different mother tongue backgrounds and interviewed international students studying in China through questionnaire and interview. The following was found in this study: (a) The HSK influenced both the process…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Chen Chen; Yifeng Yuan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) in Chinese as a second language (CSL) vocabulary learning from the international students' perspective. A new theoretical framework of VR-based vocabulary learning was designed and verified to serve the investigation. A total of 30 international students learning CSL in a Chinese…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Computer Simulation
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
Amir Rouhshad; Catherine Flynn; Lena Turnbull; Bella Ross – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Little is known about what academics focus on when providing assessment feedback to international students for whom English is an additional language (EAL). This study examines written assessment feedback provided to 11 EAL-speaking international students throughout a two-year Master of Social Work programme and investigates their perspectives of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Feedback (Response), Foreign Students
Sharon Leslie; Thomas Roche – English Australia Journal, 2024
The University English Centres of Australia (UECA) 'Assessment Symposium: Assessment Practice in a Changing World' at Southern Cross University in October 2022 highlighted the growing interest in integrated assessment in Australian university direct entry programs (DEPs) for English as Additional Language (EAL) students. In keynote presentations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Tomlin Gagen; Farahnaz Faez – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Thousands of education institutions worldwide rely on IELTS scores as criteria for accepting international students whose first language is not English. Individual studies have found varying degrees of strength of correlations and conflicting results between IELTS entry scores and subsequent academic success. These conflicting results were…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Scores, Correlation, Higher Education
Stefan O'Grady – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
Language testing is witnessing increasing interest in the potential for AI to support test development and validation. To date, published research involving AI in language testing has typically been conducted in the context of high-stakes proficiency tests and the potential for this technology to support local language testing is under-researched.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Pragmatics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Articulation (Speech)
Stefan O'Grady – International Journal of Listening, 2025
Language assessment is increasingly computermediated. This development presents opportunities with new task formats and equally a need for renewed scrutiny of established conventions. Recent recommendations to increase integrated skills assessment in lecture comprehension tests is premised on empirical research that demonstrates enhanced construct…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Lecture Method, Listening Comprehension Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
Stefania Spina; Irene Fioravanti; Luciana Forti; Fabio Zanda – Second Language Research, 2024
This article introduces the CELI corpus, a new learner corpus of written Italian consisting of ca. 600,000 tokens, evenly distributed among CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) proficiency levels B1, B2, C1 and C2. The collected texts derive from the language certification exams administered by the University for Foreigners…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Best Practices
Nathan Michael Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
International students have comprised a steadily growing demographic in America's colleges and universities for the past seventy-five years. Over the many years and decades, the proportion of international students whose first language is not English has also increased. Subsequently, American higher education has come to rely on an important…
Descriptors: International Education, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shihai Zhang; Hanfu Mi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Chinese has a rich and diverse vocabulary of terms, especially verbs, expressing power relationships. This paper selected 25 power relationship terms from the Chinese Proficiency Scale for International Chinese Education, and used a true-false format to test the differences in acquisition between international students from Confucian cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Power Structure, Chinese, Language Proficiency
Zhang-Wu, Qianqian; Brisk, Maria Estela – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Although being able to meet the TOEFL requirement for college admission, Chinese international students often encounter linguistic challenges during their initial college experiences. Understanding such challenges set the foundation for implementing Linguistically Responsive Instruction (LRI) in higher education. Although well studied in K-12…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
Tomoko Oyama; Hyun-Sook Kang – Language Awareness, 2024
The present study examined the relative effects of discourse-based and sentence-level grammar instruction on the learning of English present perfect in academic writing, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Participants were 37 multilingual graduate students enrolled in different sections of an ESL-writing course at a U.S.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shahinaz Obaid Alkhaldi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this correlational study was to investigate the relationship between academic performance self-reported GPA, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety FLCA, and The International English Language Testing System IELTS scores among Saudi international students attending college in the United States, and to discover how this relationship…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Lin, Rongchan – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Communication in the real world often entails the interpretation, evaluation, and integration of content from different sources. However, it appears that the ability to integrate content into discourse has not been explicitly scored for in existing studies. This study operationalizes content integration in the analytic scoring of a…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Generalization, Chinese, Second Language Learning