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Ray J. T. Liao; Renka Ohta; Kwangmin Lee – Language Testing, 2024
As integrated writing tasks in large-scale and classroom-based writing assessments have risen in popularity, research studies have increasingly concentrated on providing validity evidence. Given the fact that most of these studies focus on adult second language learners rather than younger ones, this study examined the relationship between written…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation, English Language Learners, Discourse Analysis
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Alderson, J. Charles; Kremmel, Benjamin – Language Testing, 2013
"Vocabulary and structural knowledge" (Grabe, 1991, p. 379) appears to be a key component of reading ability. However, is this component to be taken as a unitary one or is structural knowledge a separate factor that can therefore also be tested in isolation in, say, a test of syntax? If syntax can be singled out (e.g. in order to…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Tests, Content Validity, Test Validity