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Direct linkChen, Fang; Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – Language Testing, 2014
Newer statistical procedures are typically introduced to help address the limitations of those already in practice or to deal with emerging research needs. Quantile regression (QR) is introduced in this paper as a relatively new methodology, which is intended to overcome some of the limitations of least squares mean regression (LMR). QR is more…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Mathematics Achievement
Kennedy, Claire; Miceli, Tiziana – Language Learning & Technology, 2010
In much of the literature on the exploitation of corpora for language learning, the learners are viewed as researchers, who formulate and test their own hypotheses about language use. Having identified difficulties encountered in corpus investigations by our intermediate-level students of Italian in a previous study, we have designed a…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Italian
Peer reviewedVandergrift, Laurens – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Investigated the types of reception strategies and the frequency of their use by students of French as a second language at different levels of language proficiency, measured by an oral proficiency interview. A number of distinct strategies were identified: kinesics, global reprises, hypothesis testing in English and uptaking. Results are…
Descriptors: French, Group Dynamics, Hypothesis Testing, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedTakahashi, Satomi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Examines the transferability of five Japanese indirect request strategies to corresponding English request contexts. Findings indicate that the Japanese strategies were differentially transferable and the transferability of each first-language request strategy was determined by interaction between the politeness and conventionality encoded in each…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, English, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedDaller, Helmut – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Studies the language proficiency of the Turkish returnees from Germany who were either born in Germany or emigrated there with their parents at a young age. Results indicate that returnees have a deficit in cognitive academic language proficiency compared to control groups and that a correlation exists between language proficiency in Turkish,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Control Groups, Correlation, English
Peer reviewedMahoney, Dino; And Others – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1997
Examines four factors in the operation of formal schemata in the recall of written narrative texts in English by students in Hong Kong: quantity of recall; temporal sequence of recall from story-schematic and input versions of stories; the effects of second language proficiency level on quantity of recall; and the quality of recall. (31…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
