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Suzumura, Nana – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The present study is part of a larger mixed methods project that investigated the speaking section of the Advanced Placement (AP) Japanese Language and Culture Exam. It investigated assumptions for the evaluation inference through a content analysis of test taker responses. Results of the content analysis were integrated with those of a many-facet…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Test Wiseness, Advanced Placement, Computer Assisted Testing
Shang, Xiaoqi; Xie, Guixia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Sight translation has been widely used in aptitude testing to screen prospective trainee interpreters at leading interpreter training schools, including ESIT, ISIT, and EMCI. However, it has also been criticised for its lack of validity and reliability. No empirical study has thus far been conducted to explore its power to predict interpreting…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Yalçin-Çolakoglu, Özlem; Selçuk, Merve – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Criterion referenced tests of second language speaking performance are administered in different institutions using different procedures. The present study reports raters' practices of second language speaking tests, in particular the correspondence between test-takers' grades when assessed individually and in groups. Data derived from…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences
Ebadi, Mandana Rohollahzadeh; Abedalaziz, Nabeel; Saad, Mohd Rashid Mohd – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
Lack of valid means of measuring explicit and implicit knowledge in acquisition of second language is a concern issue in investigations of explicit and implicit learning. This paper endeavors to validate the use of four tests (i.e., Untimed Judgment Grammatical Test, UJGT; Test of Metalinguistic Knowledge, TMK; Elicited Oral Imitation Test, EOIT;…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Psychometrics, Second Language Learning, Outcome Measures
Alberola Colomar, María Pilar – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This article presents and analyses a classroom-based assessment method to test students' speaking skills in a variety of professional settings in tourism. The assessment system has been implemented in the Communication in English for Tourism course, as part of the Tourism Management degree programme, at Florida Universitaria (affiliated to the…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Tourism, Oral Language, Language Tests
Hsu, Huei-Lien – ProQuest LLC, 2012
By centralizing the issue of test fairness in language proficiency assessments, this study responds to a call by researchers for developing greater social responsibility in the language testing agenda. As inquiries into language attitude and psychology indicate, there is an underlying uncertainty pertaining to the validity of test use and score…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Mixed Methods Research
Wolff, Udo – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1978
Finds that text material in final (end-of-school) French oral examinations in Germany do not correspond with the accomplishment to be expected of the students, in both appropriateness and degree of difficulty. Offers criteria, sample texts, and suggestions regarding reasonable requirements. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, French, Graduation Requirements, Language Fluency

Ducroquet, Lucile – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1986
Meaningful and relevant tests of oral competence in foreign languages must address problems impeding communicative competence such as lack of student motivation, unimaginative questions, inhibitive personal questions, and pictorial tests. Examples of test questions are presented in French. (CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Evaluation Criteria, French, Language Tests

Matthews, Margaret – ELT Journal, 1990
Discusses problems with the current trend in using behavior trait-based criteria to assess English-as-a-Second-Language productivity skills, and describes alternatives to such testing that involve the matching of linguistic tasks against nonlinguistic criteria. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Language Proficiency
Brindley, Geoff – 1994
It is argued that while task-centered assessment of second language learning has the strong support of teachers and learners, focuses on language as a tool rather than as an end in itself, and fosters learning, there remain some problems with its use. Further work must be done to develop assessment criteria that reflect current theories of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline; Tarone, Elaine – 1996
A discussion of second language testing focuses on the need for collaboration among researchers in second language learning, teaching, and testing concerning development of context-appropriate language tests. It is argued that the nature of the proficiency construct in language is not constant, but that different linguistic, functional, and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Evaluation Criteria, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Lado, Robert – 1961
Intended as a comprehensive introduction to the construction and use of foreign language tests, this book utilizes modern linguistic knowledge as a base for scientific language testing. Major attention in testing is focused on such integrated language skills as auditory and reading comprehension, speaking, writing, translation, and over-all…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Testing, Cultural Education
Kohonen, Viljo, Ed.; And Others – 1985
A collection of papers on language testing addresses these topics: language tests seen from a communicative viewpoint; microcomputers and testing; productive second language skills; developing teachers' assessment skills; content validity of holistic tests; statistical regression in group conversation tests; reading comprehension; unique…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
de Jong, John H. A. L. – 1982
The development and validation of a test of listening comprehension for English as a second language at the Dutch National Institute for Educational Measurement (Cito) is described. The test uses two distinct item formats: true-false items and modified cloze items with two options. Both item formats were found to measure foreign language listening…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries