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Direct linkKanj, Rama; El-Hassan, Karma – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Vocabulary tests administered on multilingual populations should take into account the unique linguistic and cultural makeup of the population by adopting test development methods that allow responses in several languages. Our aims were to develop a picture-naming test for multilingual Lebanese school-age children (L1: Lebanese, L2: French and/or…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Expressive Language, Multilingualism
Download full textVarga, Szilvia; Pásztor, Attila; Stekács, János – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
The aims of the study are to construct an online instrument to assess different aspects of morphological awareness and to examine its development and its relation to reading comprehension in grades 2-4 in Hungarian children. Altogether, 4134 students were tested. The online test evaluated inflectional, derivational, and compound morphological…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Test Construction, Computer Assisted Testing, Metalinguistics
Rastegr, Behnaz; Zarei, Abbas Ali – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Much has been done on assessment literacy (AL) components and job demand-resources (JD-R). However, an interdisciplinary look at AL components as the predictors of JD-R and its possible consequences for the engagement and burnout of teachers' assessment performance has been neglected. To fill this gap, the present study explored this issue in the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Burnout, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gholami, Leila – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Focus on form (FonF) studies have predominantly addressed its effectiveness in improving learners' syntactic, lexical, orthographic, and phonological knowledge. Extending the scope of this line of research to formulaic FonF practices, this study investigates the relative effectiveness of incidental FonF targeting formulaic versus nonformulaic…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ahmadian, Moussa; Yazdani, Hooshang; Darabi, Ali – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper introduces a corpus-driven measure as a method to assess EFL learners' knowledge of semantic prosody. Semantic prosody here is defined as the tendency of some words to occur in a certain semantic environment. For example, the verb "cause" is associated with unpleasant things--death, problem and the like. Subjects were 60…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Lim, Valerie P. C.; Rickard Liow, Susan J.; Lincoln, Michelle; Chan, Yiong, Huak; Onslow, Mark – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
In multilingual Asian communities, determining language dominance for clinical assessment and intervention is often complex. The aim of this study was to develop a self-report classification tool for identifying the dominant language in English-Mandarin bilinguals. Participants (N = 168) completed a questionnaire on language history and…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Discriminant Analysis, Classification, Mandarin Chinese
Peer reviewedPetersen, Calvin R.; Ali-Haik, Antoine R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1976
Develops and validates a new language aptitude battery to be used for the selection of military personnel for training at the Defense Language Institute which offers over 50 foreign language courses. (RC)
Descriptors: Enlisted Personnel, Factor Analysis, Grade Prediction, Language Ability
Klein-Braley, Christine – 1984
This report investigates the selection of appropriate texts for C-Tests, a modified form of the cloze test, for assessing second language learning. The procedure for textbook readability first involved the administration of different texts to sample groups to determine the C-test difficulty of individual texts. At the same time, a variety of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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
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
