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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Second language assessment"”.
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The impact of world Englishes on language assessment: rater attitude, rating behavior, and challenges
By centralizing the issue of test fairness in language proficiency assessments, this study responds to a call by researchers for developing greater social responsibility in the language testing agenda. As inquiries into language attitude and psychology indicate, there is an underlying uncertainty …
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Investigating the listening construct underlying listening-to-summarize tasks
… tasks, which combine receptive and productive language skills in task performance, e.g., listening-speaking or listening-reading-speaking, are increasingly being used in second language assessment, including in high-stakes English exams such as the TOEFL iBT and PTE Academic. Although recent …
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Automatic Assessment of L2 Spoken English
… and academia, learners of English as a second language (L2) have been steadily growing. This has contributed to an increasing demand for automatic spoken language assessment systems for formal settings and practice situations in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. One common …
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Orthographic Skills in English Language Learners and Students with Learning Disabilities
… with learning disabilities (LD), English Language Learning (ELL) students and their typical-achieving, native-English speaking (TYP) peers to help in the differentiation of these groups, and ultimately improve LD assessment for linguistically diverse students. A repeated-measures ANOVA was …