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Direct linkMark Chapman; Meg Montee; Yangting Wang; Gordon Blaine West; Jason A. Kemp; Ahyoung Alicia Kim – Language Testing, 2026
This paper reports the results of a study designed to explore the relationships between speaking test task variables and linguistic features of spoken responses on a speaking assessment for Grade 7 multilingual English learners (age 12-13) in U.S. public schools. Speaking task responses from 30 high-proficiency test takers were transcribed and…
Descriptors: English Learners, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency
Brunfaut, Tineke; Kormos, Judit; Michel, Marije; Ratajczak, Michael – Language Testing, 2021
Extensive research has demonstrated the impact of working memory (WM) on first language (L1) reading comprehension across age groups (Peng et al., 2018), and on foreign language (FL) reading comprehension of adults and older adolescents (Linck et al., 2014). Comparatively little is known about the effect of WM on young FL readers' comprehension,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy
Huang, Becky H.; Bailey, Alison L.; Sass, Daniel A.; Shawn Chang, Yung-hsiang – Language Testing, 2021
Given the increasing emphasis of communicative competence in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts and the lack of validation research on speaking assessments for adolescent EFL learners, in the current study we examined the validity of the TOEFL Junior® speaking test, a relatively new speaking assessment developed by Educational Testing…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Segbers, Jutta; Schroeder, Sascha – Language Testing, 2017
In this article we present a new method for estimating children's total vocabulary size based on a language corpus in German. We drew a virtual sample of different lexicon sizes from a corpus and let the virtual sample "take" a vocabulary test by comparing whether the items were included in the virtual lexicons or not. This enabled us to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Vocabulary, Elementary School Students
Leong, Che Kan; Ho, Man Koon; Chang, Jianfang; Hau, Kit Tai – Language Testing, 2013
The present study examined pedagogic components of Chinese reading literacy in a representative sample of 1164 Grades 7, 9 and 11 Chinese students (mean age of 15 years) from 11 secondary schools in Hong Kong with each student tested for about 2.5 hours. Multiple group confirmatory factor analyses showed that across the three grade levels, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 9
