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Hsu, Huei-Lien – ProQuest LLC, 2012
By centralizing the issue of test fairness in language proficiency assessments, this study responds to a call by researchers for developing greater social responsibility in the language testing agenda. As inquiries into language attitude and psychology indicate, there is an underlying uncertainty pertaining to the validity of test use and score…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Mixed Methods Research
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Jiang, Nan; Nekrasova, Tatiana M. – Modern Language Journal, 2007
A number of researchers have suggested that formulaic sequences are stored and processed holistically (Altenberg, 1998; Raupach, 1984; Schmitt & Carter, 2004; Spottl & McCarthy, 2004). However, the evidence for this hypothesis has not been conclusive. The present study examined the representation and processing of formulaic sequences in two online…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Sentence Structure