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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"English placement test"”.
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Examining maintained authenticity in a modified process-oriented English placement test
Attempting to create an authentic placement exam for a program using process-oriented writing pedagogy presents many challenges. Practitioners and researchers have debated both the nature of authentic assessment and nature of process-oriented writing for more than forty years. The University of …
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Validity of the English Placement Test at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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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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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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CAF across proficiency levels and profiles: an investigation of ESL student writings in an English placement test
This study was an examination of the predictive value of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) across proficiency levels and profiles in second language writing. 150 ESL essays of international students registered at a North American university were analyzed using various CAF measures. Descriptive …
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Analyzing the influence of utterance fluency across assessed speaking profiles in the oral English placement test at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Cohesive ties in the expository writing of adult Korean ESL subjects and native speakers of English
… university-level Korean ESL subjects and native English speakers. Twenty-five essays were collected from each language group and analyzed for cohesive ties using Halliday and Hasan's categorization of cohesive devices. The results of the cohesive tie analysis for the two language groups were then …
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An exploration of the LAL development of pre-service ESL teachers through the processes of item writing
… instruction addresses some practical aspects of test development competencies, which include item writing. The current study investigates the features and practices of item writing for an institutional English Placement Test in a university context, and explores the potential of the activities of …
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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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Opportunity or not: Race, Gender, Income, and Academic Success in an Open-Access College
… – grade point average, academic action, English placement test, and math placement test, and (c) number of quarters attended, and (d) transfer/graduation rate. The variables examined were applied to two groups, low income students and high income students. These variables were included …
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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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The Relationship Between Student Self-Efficacy And English Proficiency In A University Intensive English Program
… relationship between learner self-efficacy and English-language proficiency in a native English environment involving participants from various non-native English backgrounds. Participants were 43 English language learners in a university-level Intensive English Program in the Southeast United …
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How grammar matters in NNS academic writing: the relationship between verb tense and aspect usage patterns and L2 writing proficiency in academic discourse
… three levels of students—during the official English Placement Test writing exam at UIUC. By counting the raw numbers of the English verb tense and aspect combinations in four main aspectual categories and analyzing the functional uses of each tense and aspect from actual student writing …
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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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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 …