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Direct linkKozo Yanagawa – Language Awareness, 2024
This study examined the effects of bottom-up instruction (BI) on a high-stakes listening test for second language (L2) listeners and compared these effects with those of strategy instruction (SI) in relation to their proficiency levels. Two intact classes (48 L2 listeners) of different L2 listening proficiency levels received five weeks of BI and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metalinguistics, Listening Comprehension Tests
Dong, Manxia; Fan, Jason; Xu, Jian – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
Understanding of the differential washback effects of high-stakes tests on students' learning remains limited. This study attempts to fill this research gap by investigating the differential washback effects of the National Matriculation English Test (NMET) in China on students' English learning process across genders, grades and English…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textScholz, George E.; Scholz, Celeste M. – 1981
This study examines the relationship between an open-ended cloze test and its multiple-choice versions generated from three sources: (1) interlingual learner-generated distractors--distractors selected from one language group and administered to a different language group, (2) intralingual learner-generated distractors--distractors selected from…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, English for Special Purposes, Language Proficiency
Thain, John W. – 1994
Two studies at the Defense Language Institute (California) investigated the contribution of several variables to prediction of post-language-training proficiency: (1) scores on a general vocational aptitude battery and a language aptitude battery, both used to screen potential students; (2) scores on other cognitive measures not used in the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Anxiety, English, Federal Programs
Chamot, Anna Uhl; And Others – 1993
Two studies are reported. The first investigated the feasibility of integrating learning strategy instruction into high school beginning and intermediate level Russian and Spanish classes. The second study assisted teachers and students of Japanese, Russian, and Spanish to implement informal assessment activities in their classrooms. A literature…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Diagnostic Tests, High Schools
Stansfield, Charles W.; Kenyon, Dorry Mann – 1988
The report of the Interagency Language Roundtable's invitational symposium on language aptitude testing consists of a description of the project and appendixes which include the following: (1) the symposium program and abstracts of papers; (2) a list of participants; and (3) summaries of the discussions of three working groups (on applications,…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Aptitude Tests, Artificial Languages
Thornton, Julie, Ed. – 1994
The Language Aptitude Symposium papers include: "Prognostication and Language Aptitude Testing, 1925-62" (Bernard Spolsky); "You, the Government, and Language Aptitude" (Government Roundtable; abstract only); "Styles of Thinking and Learning" (Robert Sternberg); "Current Research in Measuring Listening"…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Affective Objectives, Age Differences, Attitude Change
