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Jamie L. Schissel; Huseyin Uysal – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
This editorial explores the intersection of equity and validity in language assessment, focusing on language-minoritized test-takers. Recognizing that tests often perpetuate inequitable power dynamics, our special issue, 'Equity Orientations for Validity Frameworks: Exploring the Intersections of Language and Assessment for Language-Minoritized…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Minorities, Test Validity, Power Structure
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Jennifer Randall; Mya Poe; David Slomp; Maria Elena Oliveri – Language Testing, 2024
Educational assessments, from kindergarden to 12th grade (K-12) to licensure, have a long, well-documented history of oppression and marginalization. In this paper, we (the authors) ask the field of educational assessment/measurement to actively disrupt the White supremacist and racist logics that fuel this marginalization and re-orient itself…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Validity, Justice, Kindergarten
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Nalina Samarn; Kristof Savski – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
There is at present much focus in ELT on describing and promoting teacher and learner agency. However, ELT as a professional field is concurrently characterised by an increasing orientation toward authoritative texts, particularly those imbued with authority at the transnational level. Global textbooks are a notable example, since they, along with…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Professional Autonomy, Personal Autonomy, Global Approach
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Karatas, Tuçe Öztürk – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
In the 21st century, with the rise of the popularity of standardized or large-scale tests, their high-stakes have started to be apparent. High-stake tests are not new, but in most cases, their current use as social practice tends to shape individuals' futures. Currently the new trend for their quality discussion aims to critically evaluate tests…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Test Use
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Shihai Zhang; Hanfu Mi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Chinese has a rich and diverse vocabulary of terms, especially verbs, expressing power relationships. This paper selected 25 power relationship terms from the Chinese Proficiency Scale for International Chinese Education, and used a true-false format to test the differences in acquisition between international students from Confucian cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Power Structure, Chinese, Language Proficiency
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Uysal, Huseyin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Reclassification is a critical threshold when English Learners (ELs) exit specialized language services and access all-English mainstream classrooms. Despite the mandates of the Every Student Succeeds Act, reclassification rates and time remain a pressing problem. A product of this malfunctioning system has been long-term ELs (LTELs). This article…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
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García-Mateus, Suzanne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The two-way immersion dual language education program design includes the use of language labels to identify students as either the English speaker or the speaker of a language other than English. This paper examines four focal student and two teacher interviews to consider the ways in which the idea of a 'language expert' transpired during…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Native Language
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Khammari, Hassen – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The present study investigated the production of the speech act of disagreement among Tunisian non-native students of English and American native speakers of English. Discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit disagreement strategies by the informants. Non-native informants produced a total of 376 acts and native informants produced 395…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Fatima Abdulrahman Alsalloom – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2022
The present study investigates the effectiveness of consciousness-raising approach in interpreting conversational implicature using audiovisual input. The study was conducted on 126 Saudi female students at the Department of English Language and Literature at AlImam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. The experimental group was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Takayama, Keita; Lingard, Bob – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
This paper traces the complexities, contingencies and tensions involved in the creation of a new, 'scientific' assessment in what we call Prefecture A in Japan. We start with a thick, granular description of the complicated and ongoing narrative of a new policy emergence. This descriptive account serves as a precursor to our application of an…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Psychometrics, Public Officials, International Organizations