NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pérez Castillejo, Susana – Language Testing, 2019
This study examines how foreign language anxiety (FLA) and proficiency relate to second language (L2) utterance fluency during a final oral exam. Thirty-eight learners of Spanish (L1 English) completed unplanned narratives that were coded for ratio and length of pauses between and within Analysis of Speech Units, mean length of run, phonation-time…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
In'nami, Yo; Koizumi, Rie – Language Testing, 2012
This study examined the factor structure of the listening and reading sections of the revised Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC[R]) test. The data from the TOEIC IP (institutional program) test taken by 569 English learners were randomly split into two samples (n = 285 vs. 284). Four models (higher-order, correlated,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Second Language Learning, Factor Structure, Measurement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zhang, Su – Language Testing, 2006
This study applied generalizability theory to investigate the contributions of persons, items, sections, and language backgrounds to the score dependability of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). I replicated and extended Brown's (1999) study of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), using data from two…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Generalizability Theory, English (Second Language), Scores