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Stewart, Gail; Strachan, Andrea – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Since its implementation in 2004, the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) has been accepted as evidence of language ability for licensure of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in Canada. This article focuses on the complexities of sustaining an occupation-specific assessment over time. The authors reference the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English for Special Purposes, Benchmarking, Nurses
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Baldwin, Stefanie; Cheng, Liying – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This qualitative validation study examines sixteen Internationally Educated Nurses' (IENs') accounts of the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) at two testing centres (Toronto and Hamilton). This study adopts both focus groups and one-on-one interviews to investigate the inferences drawn from the test, and its…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing Education, Foreign Countries, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
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Mulyadi, Dodi; Wijayatiningsih, Testiana Deni; Singh, Charanjit Kaur Swaran; Prastikawati, Entika Fani – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Integrating Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and learning technologies can be the potential framework in designing language instruction to enhance learners' listening comprehension and speaking performance. However, not many past studies have explored how technology enhanced TBLT can enhance both listening comprehension and speaking performance…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Speech Communication, Task Analysis, English for Special Purposes
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Horiba, Yukie; Fukaya, Keiko – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This study examined the effect of reading goal, topic-familiarity, and language proficiency on text comprehension and learning. English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students with high and low topic-familiarity read and recalled a text. Some were told in advance to expect a recall task in a particular language--the first language (L1) or second…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Goal Orientation