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Using Corpus Linguistics to Examine the Extrapolation Inference in the Validity Argument for a High-Stakes Speaking Assessment
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LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Staples, Shelley – Language Testing, 2017
Investigations of the validity of a number of high-stakes language assessments are conducted using an argument-based approach, which requires evidence for inferences that are critical to score interpretation (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008b; Kane, 2013). The current study investigates the extrapolation inference for a high-stakes test of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences
On the Accessibility of Phonological, Orthographic, and Semantic Aspects of Second Language Vocabulary Learning and Their Relationship with Spatial and Linguistic Intelligences
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Zarei, Abbas Ali; Aleali, Maryam – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2015
The present study was an attempt to investigate the differences in the accessibility of phonological, semantic, and orthographic aspects of words in L2 vocabulary learning. For this purpose, a sample of 119 Iranian intermediate level EFL students in a private language institute in Karaj was selected. All of the participants received the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Phonology
A Study of the Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners' Level of Spatial Intelligence and Their Performance on Analytical and Perceptual Cloze Tests
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Ahmadian, Moussa; Jalilian, Vahid – English Language Teaching, 2012
During the last two decades, Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences with its emphasis on learner variables has been appreciated in language learning. Spatial intelligence, as one domain of the multiple structures of intelligence, which is thought to play a great role in reading, writing, and literacy, particularly in L2 learning, has not…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries