Category: Language Education & Assessment

Language Education & Assessment
Role of expert judgement in language test validation
David Coniam , Tony Lee , Michael Milanovic , Nigel Pike , Wen Zhao - The calibration of test materials…
Thuy Thai, Susan Sheehan - In language performance tests, raters are important as their scoring decisions determine which aspects of…
E-portfolios in EFL writing: Benefits and challenges
Ying-Hsueh Cheng - While the benefits of portfolio assessment are well documented in second language (L2) writing literature, educators still…
Image-text relations and interjections in animated language-learning materials
Shin-ying Huang - This study examined image-text relations in English-as-a-foreign-language textbooks focusing on moving-image animations that accompany verbal dialogues.
Kwangmin Lee , Yafei Ye - The aim of this mixed methods study is to identify the underlying structure of…
Exploring EAP students’ perceptions of integrated writing assessment
Pakize Uludag - Despite the breadth of integrated writing assessment research, few studies have examined student perceptions of classroom-based integrated…
Jiuliang Li - This study examined the perceived effects of test preparation for College English Test Band 4 (CET4) on…
Shu-Chen Huang - Guided by the Second Language Motivational Self System (L2MSS) framework, this study examined to what extent the…
Ethan Quaid , Alex Barrett - Research examining test taker fluency in simulated and face-to-face oral proficiency interview performances has…
An integrated approach to developing and assessing EFL students’ speaking ability and strategy use
Mu-Hsuan Chou - Speaking a foreign language is a complicated process that involves linguistic competence, skills, and strategy use.
English writing anxiety and preservice teacher’s written corrective feedback
Qin Xie , Junting Yuan - This study investigated the English writing anxiety experienced by preservice English as second/foreign language…
Publishing in the midst of the coronavirus
Heng-Tsung Danny Huang - Publishing in the midst of the coronavirus.
Minh Huu Thanh Nguyen - The study aims to investigate washback of the English National Exam (ENE) on learning and…
Assessing L2 listening at a Japanese university: Effects of input type and response format
Kerry Pusey - Large-scale and classroom-based tests of L2 listening comprehension typically employ audio-only listening texts and a multiple-choice response…
S.J. Ehsanzadeh - This study measures the threshold level of depth of word knowledge in L2 incidental learning and reading…
Rurik Tywoniw , Scott Crossley - Cohesion features were calculated for a corpus of 960 essays by 480 test-takers from…
Ngoc Thi Huyen Hoang - As validity pertains to test use rather than the test itself, using a test for…
Jason Martel - Washback, that is, the effect of tests on teaching and learning, has captured the interest of scholars…
A systematic review of written corrective feedback research in ESL/EFL contexts
Sin Wang Chong - In the past decade (2007-2017), research on written corrective feedback (WCF) has been proliferating in English-as-a-Second-Language…
Huei-Chun Teng, Chun-Wei Fu - The study aims to explore the washback of incorporating English listening tests in the senior…
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