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Duangkamon Klungthong; Punchalee Wasanasomsithi – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Academic vocabulary is necessary for university students. Vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) assist students to enhance their vocabulary knowledge and should be examined in accordance with their dynamic nature (Gu, 2020). Dynamic assessment (DA) is considered an alternative assessment that simultaneously and systematically assesses and teaches…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Second Language Learning
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Malihe YarAhmadi; Hossein Kargar Behbahani – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Traditional approaches to language assessment have been criticized for their inadequacy in taking account of language learners' potential for development. To obviate this pitfall in traditional assessment, language teachers and researchers have been paying increasing attention to dynamic assessment (DA), which is rooted in Vygotsky's (1978)…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
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Dony Marzuki – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
This study investigated the effects of two types of classroom instructions on EFL learners' oral proficiency by implementing teachers' judgment. Two intact classes of EFL university students studied a compulsory subject of their department under two different types of classroom instruction. The first group of students was trained with explicit…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pablo Robles-García; Stuart McLean; Jeffrey Stewart; Ji-young Shin; Claudia Helena Sánchez-Gutiérrez – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Recent literature in the field of L2 vocabulary assessment has advocated for the development of written receptive vocabulary tests such as Vocabulary Levels Tests (VLTs) that use: (a) meaning-recall item formats, (b) a minimum of 40 item counts per 1,000-frequency band to improve level estimates, and (c) lemmas (not word-families) as the lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Test Validity, Test Construction, Vocabulary Development
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Stefanie Frisch, Editor; Karen Glaser, Editor – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2025
This volume presents state-of-the-art research in early foreign language (L2) education in instructed contexts with a special focus on primary school (ages 5-12). Over the past two decades, early language teaching has become an important factor in both academic inquiry and education policy. Studies have attested to the value of early L2 learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students, Trend Analysis
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Minda, Motuma Hirpassa; Chaka, Chaka – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This study examined the implementation of an alternative assessment in a course, Communicative English Skills Course (CESC), at three Ethiopian universities. The study mainly focused on multi-assessor strategies, multiple assessment tools, and comprehensive, progressive, continuous, and relevant assessment used by instructors at these three…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The present study investigated the effects of text-based and audio-based dynamic glosses on L2 vocabulary learning within a sociocultural approach. Dynamic glosses were operationalised as a set of incrementally ordered prompts, provided during text-based and audio-based interactions that guided the participants to identify the meaning of unknown…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation
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Frederick J. Poole; Matthew D. Coss; Jody Clarke-Midura – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
This study explored the use of stealth assessments within a digital game to assess second language (L2) Chinese learners' reading comprehension. Log data tracking learners' in-game behaviors from a game designed for Chinese dual language immersion classrooms (Poole et al., 2022) were used to construct Bayesian Belief Networks to model reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Game Based Learning
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Sharakhimov, Shoaziz; Nurmukhamedov, Ulugbek – English Teaching Forum, 2021
Vocabulary learning is an incremental process. Vocabulary knowledge, especially for second-language learners, may develop across a lifetime. Teachers with experience in providing feedback on their students' vocabulary use in writing or speech might have noticed that it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint one aspect of word knowledge. The reason is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Durán, Estefanía; García, Katherin – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
This multiple case study explored the influence of English teachers' methodological practices over undergraduate students' learning processes in two English as a foreign language mandatory courses for different majors, at Universidad de Pamplona (Colombia). Data were gathered through non-participant observations, field notes, stimulated recall…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
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Paul Sevigny; Lindsay Mack; Lance Stilp; Maiko Berger – SAGE Open, 2024
This study expands arguments calling for a more rigorous approach to high-frequency vocabulary list-based learning in EFL learning environments. Test and flashcard item designs were validated through quantitative (midterm and final test) and qualitative (survey) results to explore the impact of digital flashcards designed to build recall-level…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology), Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Jeanne Wanzek; Carla Wood; Christopher Schatschneider – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: We sought to examine second grade teachers' word use throughout the school day to identify the amount and type of teacher vocabulary use across content areas as well as to examine relationships between this teacher talk and student language and literacy achievement. Method: Second grade teachers (n = 64) and a random sample of half of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Grade 2, Elementary School Teachers, Language Acquisition
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Jeon, Jaeho – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This study investigated the effect of Chatbot-Assisted Dynamic Assessment (CA-DA) on vocabulary learning and provided insights into learner abilities drawn from its implementation. Through the use of mediating chatbots, this study implemented DA to multiple learners simultaneously and provided each learner with human-like interaction. The chatbots…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Technology Uses in Education, Man Machine Systems
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Masaki Akase – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a vocabulary size test is a valid and reliable measure of longitudinal growth in vocabulary size (VS), and to investigate the relationship between growth in VS and use of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS). Kasahara's (2006) revised version of Mochizuki's (1998) Vocabulary Size Test (VST) was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chow, Jason C.; Frey, Jennifer R.; Naples, Lauren H. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
We investigated the associations between teacher-rated and direct assessments of early elementary students' speech and language skills to explore whether using teachers as primary screeners yielded assessment data that reliably identified young students with language difficulties who many need a more comprehensive evaluation. We assessed first-…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Speech Communication
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