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Assessing Diversity: A Case of Black English and Running Records
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JaNiece Elzy-Palmer – Journal of Literacy Research, 2025
This study examines the complex interplay between language ideologies and oral reading assessments for Black English-speaking students within Reading Recovery, a literacy intervention for first graders. Using a comparative case study, I analyzed the practices of three teachers to explore how they code, interpret, and adapt running record…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Attitudes, Black Dialects, Reading Programs
Register Variation in Spoken and Written Language Use across Technology-Mediated and Non-Technology-Mediated Learning Environments
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Kyle, Kristopher; Eguchi, Masaki; Choe, Ann Tai; LaFlair, Geoff – Language Testing, 2022
In the realm of language proficiency assessments, the domain description inference and the extrapolation inference are key components of a validity argument. Biber et al.'s description of the lexicogrammatical features of the spoken and written registers in the T2K-SWAL corpus has served as support for the TOEFL iBT test's domain description and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Written Language, Speech Communication, Inferences
Comparing Language Use in Oral Proficiency Interviews to Target Domains: Conversational, Academic, and Professional Discourse
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Staples, Shelley; Laflair, Geoffrey T.; Egbert, Jesse – Modern Language Journal, 2017
Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) are widely used to measure speaking ability in a second or foreign language. The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) Speaking Test is an OPI used for academic and professional purposes around the world. However, little research on this or other OPIs has quantitatively compared test takers' speech…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Nurses
Using Corpus Linguistics to Examine the Extrapolation Inference in the Validity Argument for a High-Stakes Speaking Assessment
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LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Staples, Shelley – Language Testing, 2017
Investigations of the validity of a number of high-stakes language assessments are conducted using an argument-based approach, which requires evidence for inferences that are critical to score interpretation (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008b; Kane, 2013). The current study investigates the extrapolation inference for a high-stakes test of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences
Comparison of the "Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test (DELV-ST)" to Two Other Screeners for Low-Income, African American Children
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Christy Wynn Moland – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the "DELV-ST" by comparing it to two other screeners, the "Fluharty-2" and the "Washington-Craig Language Screener" (WCLS). The participants were 73 African American Pre-K and Head Start children, aged four- to five-years-old. Fail rates were higher than what…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Screening Tests, Low Income, African American Children
The Stability of Oral Proficiency Assessment on the Oral Interview Testing Procedures.
Shohamy, Elana – 1981
While the goal of language teaching has been the development of practical communication, most language tests have stressed mastery of discrete linguistic skills. Oral language performance-based testing requires test-takers to use and perform in the language in actual communicative situations. The variations in communication created by the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Correlation, Hebrew, Language Proficiency