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Measuring Teacher Cognition: Comparing Chinese EFL Teachers' Implicit and Explicit Attitudes toward English Language Teaching Methods
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Sun, Chen; Wei, Linlin; Young, Richard F. – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Within the context of an ongoing reform of the curriculum for English as a foreign language (EFL) in China, we present the implicit association test (IAT) as a new way to measure Chinese EFL teachers' implicit attitudes to a communicative language teaching (CLT) curriculum and to compare their attitudes to traditional language teaching (TLT)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
The Role of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Predicting Second Language Descriptive Writing Performance
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Dabbagh, Ali; Janebi Enayat, Mostafa – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The present study investigates the interaction between vocabulary breadth and depth on the one hand and assessments of L2 learners' descriptive writing on the other. The predictive role of these two dimensions of vocabulary knowledge in relation to the vocabulary component of the assessment was also examined. The extent to which vocabulary…
Descriptors: Role, Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Investigation of Pre-Service English Language Teachers' Cognitive Structures about Some Key Concepts in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Course through Word Association Test
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Ersanli, Ceylan Yangin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
This study aims to map the cognitive structure of pre-service English language (EL) teachers about three key concepts related to approaches and methods in language teaching so as to discover their learning process and misconceptions. The study involves both qualitative and quantitative data. The researcher administrated a Word Association Test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Aspects of Validity of a Test of Productive Vocabulary: Lex30
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Walters, JoDee – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
This study investigates aspects of validity of an alternative measure of productive vocabulary. Lex30, developed by Meara and Fitzpatrick, is a word association task that claims to give an indication of productive vocabulary knowledge. Previous studies of Lex30 have assessed test-retest reliability, performance against native speaker norms,…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Validity, Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development