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Beaudrie, Sara; Amezcua, Angelica; Loza, Sergio – Language Testing, 2019
Critical language awareness (CLA) is increasingly identified as a central component of the Spanish heritage language (SHL) classroom (Leeman, 2005; Martínez, 2003; among others). As a minority language, SHL is subject to sociopolitical, cultural, and economic forces that devalue its status. It is devalued in the eyes of the public, as a legitimate…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Heritage Education, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Aryadoust, Vahid; Zhang, Limei – Language Testing, 2016
The present study used the mixed Rasch model (MRM) to identify subgroups of readers within a sample of students taking an EFL reading comprehension test. Six hundred and two (602) Chinese college students took a reading test and a lexico-grammatical knowledge test and completed a Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use Questionnaire (MCSUQ)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Item Response Theory, Reading Comprehension
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Katzenberger, Irit; Meilijson, Sara – Language Testing, 2014
The Katzenberger Hebrew Language Assessment for Preschool Children (henceforth: the KHLA) is the first comprehensive, standardized language assessment tool developed in Hebrew specifically for older preschoolers (4;0-5;11 years). The KHLA is a norm-referenced, Hebrew specific assessment, based on well-established psycholinguistic principles, as…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Language Tests