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Chan, Sathena – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: Integrated reading-into-writing tasks are increasingly used in large-scale language proficiency tests. Such tasks are said to possess higher authenticity as they reflect real-life writing conditions better than independent, writing-only tasks. However, to effectively define the reading-into-writing construct, more empirical evidence…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Graduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hale, Chris C. – Language Testing in Asia, 2015
Student self-assessment has been heralded as a way of increasing student ownership of the learning process, enhancing metacognative awareness of their learning progress as well as promoting learner autonomy. In a university setting, where a major aim is to promote critical thinking and attentiveness to one's responsibility in an academic…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Learning Processes, Metacognition, Personal Autonomy
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Gustilo, Leah E. – Language Testing in Asia, 2013
The purpose of the pilot study, which is a part of a larger project on ESL writing involving freshmen college students in the Philippines, is to explore the relationship between writer's performance, writer's resources, and writer's idea generation process. To measure the writer's performance, diagnostic essays of 85 Filipino freshmen engineering…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Engineering Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning