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What Does Corpus Linguistics Have to Offer to Language Assessment?
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Xi, Xiaoming – Language Testing, 2017
In recent years, continuing advances in technology have increased the capacity to automate the extraction of a range of linguistic features of texts and thus have provided the impetus for the substantial growth of corpus linguistics. While corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used extensively in second language learning research, they…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods
Applied Linguistics and Measurement: A Dialogue
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McNamara, Tim – Language Testing, 2011
The paper by Wilson and Moore (this volume), based on the Messick Lecture delivered in 2006 at the annual Language Testing Research Colloquium in Melbourne, may present a familiar challenge to some language testers: of reading outside one's comfort zone. The distinctive character of language testing lies in its combination of two primary fields of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Applied Linguistics, Testing, Language Tests
Assessment of Dysarthric Speech: A Case for a Combined Perceptual and Physiological Approach.
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Theodoros, Deborah; Murdoch, Bruce; Horton, Sue – Language Testing, 1999
Highlights the importance of a combined approach to the assessment of dysarthria with reference to two case studies of individuals with dysarthric speech: a 32-year-old adult who suffered a severe closed head injury and a 9-year-old child who experienced a cerebrovascular accident involving the basilar artery. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Language Tests, Neurological Impairments
Authenticity, Validity and a Tea Party.
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Stevenson, Douglas K. – Language Testing, 1985
Discusses authenticity in language testing in relation to the language proficiency movement. Looks at both sociolinguistic and psychometric principles as they are concerned with authenticity and validity as well as the inferential distance that separates face validity from techical validities. Criticizes the belief that some test type possess…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Measurement Techniques, Methods, Psychometrics
Assessment in Communication Disorders: Some Observations on Current Issues.
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Marquardt, Thomas P.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language Testing, 1999
Considers the ecological validity of tests in predicting the effects of speech and language impairment on communicative performance in real-world settings and the need for systematic observation of communicative behaviors, particularly of individuals from other cultures. Discusses whether standardized testing and systematic observation are…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency
Monitoring Language Skills in Austrian Primary (Elementary) Schools: A Case Study.
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Zangl, Renate – Language Testing, 2000
Provides an overview of how language skills in young learners have been assessed in two primary school contexts, carried out in a total of seven Austrian primary schools. The schools took part in an initiative where the integration of a foreign language was introduced when children entered primary school at the age of six. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, FLES