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Using a Two-Tier Test in Examining Taiwan Graduate Students' Perspectives on Paraphrasing Strategies
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Sun, Yu-Chih – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
This study examines Taiwanese English as a foreign language (EFL) graduate students' perspectives on paraphrasing strategies. A two-layer scenario survey was developed to identify the reasoning behind students' judgments that certain paraphrasing is appropriate or inappropriate. The first-layer scenario survey is in a true-false format that…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Pragmatic Comprehension in Japanese as a Foreign Language
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Taguchi, Naoko – Modern Language Journal, 2008
This study developed an original instrument that measures pragmatic comprehension in Japanese as a foreign language (JFL). It examined the ability to comprehend implied meaning encoded in conventional and nonconventional features and the effect of proficiency on comprehension. There were 63 college students of Japanese at 2 proficiency levels who…
Descriptors: Test Format, Scores, Second Language Learning, Japanese
Possible Contributing Factors in Test Item Difficulty. Research Memorandum.
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Stabler, Edward P., Jr. – 1986
A type of item used frequently in standardized testing involves the recognition of a sentence. Examples of such items are the sentence completion items, used in both the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and the sentence correction items used in the Test of Standard Written English. Tests that contain such…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Language Processing, Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent)