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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"English Placement Test (EPT)"”.
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The effects of interlocutors on student performance on constructed dialogue tasks assessing primary phrase stress production
… phrase stress and intonation usage in American English by working with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) oral section of its English placement test (EPT). This study developed a comparable version of a specific section of oral section of the EPT's specification which was …
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The influence of lexical features on human rater's judgement of essay performance on local English Placement Test
… at Urbana-Champaign, 262 essays from the English Placement Test (EPT) were collected and holistically scored based on the EPT holistic profile-based rating scales into five profiles across three proficiency levels. Lexical features related to lexical sophistication and lexical diversity …
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Adaptation of the EPT specification to a Ukrainian argumentative writing test within the contrastive rhetoric approach
… of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA) English Placement Test (EPT) Specification (spec) to the Ukrainian argumentative writing test taken by Ukrainian high-school graduates as a part of the obligatory Unified State Examination (USE) within the contrastive rhetoric approach. Never before …
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TOEFL as a prediction tool for placement into ESL writing courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The English placement test (EPT) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is designed to provide an accurate placement (or exemption) of international students into ESL writing and pronunciation classes. Over the last three years, UIUC has experienced an increase in number of …
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Peer feedback in an integrated, process-oriented ESL writing placement test
… interactional competence during paired speaking tests; however, to date not much has been explored with regards to the nature of peer interaction during a writing test. This study proposes to fill this gap in SLA and L2 testing research by examining the peer-review section of the English …
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Quality management and stakeholder accountability: Computerization of a mandate-driven placement test
… that needed to take the University’s ESL placement test, the UIUC English Placement Test (EPT), in order to accurately place students into appropriate ESL course(s) and to provide English language instruction to these students. Prior to the surge of 2008, the undergraduate EPT test-takers …
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Raters' different judgments of intelligibility in the English placement test at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This study investigated raters’ judgments of test-takers’ intelligibility on Phase I of the EPT (English Placement Test), and how their various teaching experiences and different native languages affected their judgments. The EPT is administered to incoming international students whose TOEFL scores …
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Examination of the appropriateness of using standardized test scores for English as a second language (ESL) placement
… the appropriateness of using standardized test scores for making ESL placement decisions within the context of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four manuscript papers, and a concluding chapter. In the first paper, a …