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Download full textAl-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions, and difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions containing zero, two, three, twenty, sixty, hundred, thousand…etc., and another corpus of specialized…
Descriptors: Translation, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Phrase Structure
Direct linkDeha Dogan, C.; Canan Karababa, Z.; Fulya Soguksu, A. – Educational Studies, 2017
The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to assess the level of English usage in daily life by students between 15 and 19 years of age, and to compare these students' scale scores according to their achievement levels in an English course. Five hundred and ninety-five participants were randomly selected from a universe.…
Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), Test Construction, Adolescents
International Journal of Testing, 2019
These guidelines describe considerations relevant to the assessment of test takers in or across countries or regions that are linguistically or culturally diverse. The guidelines were developed by a committee of experts to help inform test developers, psychometricians, test users, and test administrators about fairness issues in support of the…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Language Usage
Sparks, Jesse R.; Song, Yi; Brantley, Wyman; Liu, Ou Lydia – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
Written communication is considered one of the most critical competencies for academic and career success, as evident in surveys of stakeholders from higher education and the workforce. Emphasis on writing skills suggests the need for next-generation assessments of writing proficiency to inform curricular and instructional improvement. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing Processes, Language Usage, Writing Skills
Peer reviewedvan Ede, Dorette M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
Outlines steps in adapting tests for cross-cultural use: selection of an appropriate instrument for adaptation; translation of the source instrument; selecting an experimental design; determining administration parameters; pilot testing; and assessing psychometric equivalence. Focuses on potential problems during the adaptation process and on…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1977
This paper questions the purpose of testing in second language instruction. Comments are based on an examination of tests used by the Defense Language Institute for students of English as a second language. Two kinds of tests are used: the English Comprehension Level (ECL), used primarily as a basis for setting exit requirements, and "Book…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Formative Evaluation, Item Analysis
