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Comparing Language Use in Oral Proficiency Interviews to Target Domains: Conversational, Academic, and Professional Discourse

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Staples, Shelley; Laflair, Geoffrey T.; Egbert, Jesse – Modern Language Journal, 2017

Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) are widely used to measure speaking ability in a second or foreign language. The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) Speaking Test is an OPI used for academic and professional purposes around the world. However, little research on this or other OPIs has quantitatively compared test takers' speech…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Nurses

Using Corpus Linguistics to Examine the Extrapolation Inference in the Validity Argument for a High-Stakes Speaking Assessment

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LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Staples, Shelley – Language Testing, 2017

Investigations of the validity of a number of high-stakes language assessments are conducted using an argument-based approach, which requires evidence for inferences that are critical to score interpretation (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008b; Kane, 2013). The current study investigates the extrapolation inference for a high-stakes test of…

Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences

The Validity of the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency as a General Measure of High School English Achievement in American Samoa.

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Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978

An examination of the relationship between high school English grade point average and the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency scores, for a sample of English as second-language (ESL) high school students in American Samoa, indicated the validity of the test with ESL students. (Author/JKS)

Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Grade Point Average, High Schools