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Topic and Accent Coverage in a Commercialized L2 Listening Test: Implications for Test-Takers' Identity
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Vahid Aryadoust – Applied Linguistics, 2024
I analyzed a corpus of the international English language testing system (IELTS) comprising 256 listening sections (1996-2021). The primary objective of the study was to gain insights into the assumptions made by test designers regarding the real-life contexts that test-takers will encounter. Overall, 15 superordinate topic areas and 300 subtopics…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Commercialization, Second Language Learning
"The Road Not Taken" in Language Testing: Sociocultural Implications of Test and Teaching Contents
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Noori, Mahdieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Shifting focus of asocial language tests toward social considerations recalls their ideological basis (Mirhosseini, De Costa, 2020). The recurrent exposure to and involvement in discursive constructions of high stakes' contents, may bring along certain sociocultural conceptualizations and values by test audiences (van Dijk, 1998). Thus, unless a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Test Content