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First Language Literacy Skills, Listening Strategy Use, and Anxiety in Self-Paced versus Single-Play L2 Listening Tests
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Judit Kormos; Kathrin Eberharter; Elisa Guggenbichler; Simone Baumgartinger; Viktoria Ebner; Benjamin Kremmel – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Authentic listening increasingly involves being able to pause or replay recordings as needed. In this study, we investigated differences in the reported use of listening strategies and listening anxiety between single-play and self-paced test administration. We also analyzed the interrelationships among first language (L1) literacy skills, second…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension Tests, Literacy
The Role of Achievement Goals and Strategy Use in Secondary School Students' Integrated Writing Performance
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Yaping Liu; Choo Mui Cheong; Jiahuan Zhang – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Achievement goal theory emphasizes the importance of achievement goals in learning behavior and performance, particularly in challenging tasks. However, little research has explored how achievement goals contribute to strategy use and integrated writing (IW) performance. The present study examined the relationship between achievement goals (task-,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Secondary School Students, Writing Achievement
Text Integration and Speaking Proficiency: Linguistic, Individual Differences, and Strategy Use Considerations
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Crossley, Scott A.; Kim, YouJin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
The current study examined the effects of text-based relational (i.e., cohesion), propositional-specific (i.e., lexical), and syntactic features in a source text on subsequent integration of the source text in spoken responses. It further investigated the effects of word integration on human ratings of speaking performance while taking into…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Syntax, Oral Language, Speech Communication
Test Takers' Performance Appraisals, Appraisal Calibration, and Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use
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Phakiti, Aek – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
The current study explores the nature and relationships among test takers' performance appraisals, appraisal calibration, and reported cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in a language test situation. Performance appraisals are executive processes of strategic competence for judging test performance (e.g., evaluating the correctness or…
Descriptors: Testing, Test Wiseness, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods
Teaching Statistics in Language Testing Courses
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Brown, James Dean – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
The purpose of this article is to examine the literature on teaching statistics for useful ideas that teachers of language testing courses can draw on and incorporate into their teaching toolkits as they see fit. To those ends, the article addresses eight questions: What is known generally about teaching statistics? Why are students so anxious…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Anxiety, Coping
Strategic Competence as a Fourth-Order Factor Model: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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Phakiti, Aek – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
This article reports on an empirical study that tests a fourth-order factor model of strategic competence through the use of structural equation modeling (SEM). The study examines the hierarchical relationship of strategic competence to (a) strategic knowledge of cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in general (i.e., trait) and (b) strategic…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Learning Strategies