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Jia, Wenfeng; Zhang, Peixin – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
It is widely believed that raters' cognition is an important aspect of writing assessment, as it has both logical and temporal priority over scores. Based on a critical review of previous research in this area, it is found that raters' cognition can be boiled to two fundamental issues: building text images and strategies for articulating scores.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Writing Evaluation, Evaluators
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Lian Li; Jiehui Hu; Yu Dai; Ping Zhou; Wanhong Zhang – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
This paper proposes to use depth perception to represent raters' decision in holistic evaluation of ESL essays, as an alternative medium to conventional form of numerical scores. The researchers verified the new method's accuracy and inter/intra-rater reliability by inviting 24 ESL teachers to perform different representations when rating 60…
Descriptors: Essays, Holistic Approach, Writing Evaluation, Accuracy
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Lin, Rongchan – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Communication in the real world often entails the interpretation, evaluation, and integration of content from different sources. However, it appears that the ability to integrate content into discourse has not been explicitly scored for in existing studies. This study operationalizes content integration in the analytic scoring of a…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Generalization, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Hou, Peng; Kraisame, Sarawut – rEFLections, 2023
This paper provides an experimental study of interlanguage phonological characteristics of Chinese students learning Thai as a foreign language and the accentedness perceived by native Thai speakers. Both production and perception experiments were designed to see how Chinese students acoustically produced Thai final nasal consonants and how Thai…
Descriptors: Phonology, Pronunciation, Thai, Second Language Learning
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Na Liu; Jeferd Saong – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
The study examined the use of the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in assessing Chinese as a second language and the challenges faced by teachers in the Chinese Language Scholarship (CLS) program. The Concurrent Triangulation Mixed Method Research was used in the study in which qualitative and quantitative data are collected simultaneously,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
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Li, Shuai; Wen, Ting; Li, Xian; Feng, Yali; Lin, Chuan – Language Testing, 2023
This study compared holistic and analytic marking methods for their effects on parameter estimation (of examinees, raters, and items) and rater cognition in assessing speech act production in L2 Chinese. Seventy American learners of Chinese completed an oral Discourse Completion Test assessing requests and refusals. Four first-language (L1)…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Han, Chao; Lu, Xiaolei – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The use of translation and interpreting (T&I) in the language learning classroom is commonplace, serving various pedagogical and assessment purposes. Previous utilization of T&I exercises is driven largely by their potential to enhance language learning, whereas the latest trend has begun to underscore T&I as a crucial skill to be…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Correlation, Language Processing
Kostromitina, Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite the importance that learners must place on using prosody appropriately in EIL interaction, pragmatic functions of prosody have been largely disregarded in teaching materials and classroom instruction (Nikolic, 2018). Moreover, with a recent change in classroom paradigms instigated by the global development of educational technologies and…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Pragmatics, Foreign Countries
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Wu, Xuefeng – English Language Teaching, 2022
Rating scales for writing assessment are critical in that they determine directly the quality and fairness of such performance tests. However, in many EFL contexts, rating scales are made, to certain extent, based on the intuition of teachers who strongly need a feasible and scientific route to guide their construction of rating scales. This study…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Rating Scales, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Han, Chao; Xiao, Xiaoyan – Language Testing, 2022
The quality of sign language interpreting (SLI) is a gripping construct among practitioners, educators and researchers, calling for reliable and valid assessment. There has been a diverse array of methods in the extant literature to measure SLI quality, ranging from traditional error analysis to recent rubric scoring. In this study, we want to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Evaluators
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Hansen Edwards, Jette G.; Zampini, Mary L.; Cunningham, Caitlin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This study examines language attitudes towards different varieties of English through listener judgments of speaker and speech traits; in addition, the study explores the relationship of these judgments to the intelligibility, as well as the perceived accentedness and comprehensibility, of varieties of Asian English and General American English.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Asians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kang, Okim; Moran, Meghan; Ahn, Hyunkee; Park, Soon – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Factors that affect comprehension of accented English (e.g., Harding, 2011) have been well studied, but little research examines how listeners' proficiency affects their sensitivity to second language (L2) accent. The current study investigated the effect of test takers' English proficiency on their comprehension ratings and ability to correctly…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jiang, Yan; Chun, Dorothy – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This paper examines whether a web-based training on English discourse intonation leads to better spontaneous speech quality for Mandarin Chinese speakers who reside in the U.S. and in China. The four-week fully online training consisted of meta-instruction videos as well as listening and speaking activities, including instant visual pitch contour…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Linlin, Cao – English Language Teaching, 2020
Through Many-Facet Rasch analysis, this study explores the rating differences between 1 computer automatic rater and 5 expert teacher raters on scoring 119 students in a computerized English listening-speaking test. Results indicate that both automatic and the teacher raters demonstrate good inter-rater reliability, though the automatic rater…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yan, Xun; Fan, Jason – Language Testing, 2021
Recent investigations into language assessment literacy (LAL) suggest that stakeholder groups might differ in interests, needs, and expectations in assessment practice, resulting in different LAL profiles. This qualitative study furthers this line of research by examining the effect of contextual and experiential factors on the LAL profiles and…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Language Tests, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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