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Direct linkCheng, Liying; Klinger, Don; Fox, Janna; Doe, Christine; Jin, Yan; Wu, Jessica – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
This study examined test-takers' motivation, test anxiety, and test performance across a range of social and educational contexts in three high-stakes language tests: the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment in Canada, the College English Test (CET) in the People's Republic of China, and the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT)…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Test Anxiety, Language Tests, Foreign Countries
Download full textFox, Janna; Cheng, Liying – TESL Canada Journal, 2015
In keeping with the trend to elicit multiple stakeholder responses to operational tests as part of test validation, this exploratory mixed methods study examines test-taker accounts of an Internet-based (i.e., computer-administered) test in the high-stakes context of proficiency testing for university admission. In 2013, as language testing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fox, Janna; Cheng, Liying; Zumbo, Bruno D. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
Few studies have investigated the impact of English language programs on second language (L2) students studying in Canadian universities (Cheng & Fox, 2008; Fox, 2005, 2009). This article reports on questionnaire responses of 641 L2 students studying in 36 English language programs in 26 Canadian universities. The researchers identified…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Cheng, Liying; Andrews, Stephen; Yu, Ying – Language Testing, 2011
School-based assessment (SBA) has recently been introduced into the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examinations (HKCEE) in English. The present study was conducted within the context of this assessment change to investigate students' and parents' perceptions of the impact of SBA. Two surveys were employed to explore students' and parents'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries
Cheng, Liying – 1995
This paper summarizes research findings on academic reading obtained from a questionnaire, two reading tests, and a textbook analysis and discusses essential reading skills required of foreign language (FL) learners in carrying out their academic studies as well as the skills with which they have problems. Results revealed that the essential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Language Books, Functional Reading, Higher Education
Song, Xiaomei; Cheng, Liying – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
This article examines language learner strategy use reported by 121 Chinese learners of English through a questionnaire and the relationships between their strategy use and language performance on a national English proficiency test: College English Test-Band 4. Results showed that this group of learners reported using more metacognitive…
Descriptors: College English, Achievement Tests, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
