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Direct linkYan, Xun; Kim, Ha Ram; Kim, Ji Young – Language Testing, 2021
Speech fluency has been extensively researched as a core construct for second language (L2) speaking assessment. Despite the broad consensus on its multifaceted nature, few researchers have empirically explored the dimensionality of this construct. Operationalizations of fluency vary across research and practice, using both holistic and…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Tests, Accuracy, Speech Communication
Zhang, Xian; Liu, Jianda; Ai, Haiyang – Language Testing, 2020
The main purpose of this study is to investigate guessing in the Yes/No (YN) format vocabulary test. One-hundred-and-five university students took a YN test, a translation task and a multiple-choice vocabulary size test (MC VST). With matched lexical properties between the real words and the pseudowords, pseudowords could index guessing in the YN…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Test Format, College Students
McLean, Stuart; Stewart, Jeffrey; Batty, Aaron Olaf – Language Testing, 2020
Vocabulary's relationship to reading proficiency is frequently cited as a justification for the assessment of L2 written receptive vocabulary knowledge. However, to date, there has been relatively little research regarding which modalities of vocabulary knowledge have the strongest correlations to reading proficiency, and observed differences have…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Tests, Language Proficiency, Test Items
Culligan, Brent – Language Testing, 2015
This study compared three common vocabulary test formats, the Yes/No test, the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (VKS), and the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT), as measures of vocabulary difficulty. Vocabulary difficulty was defined as the item difficulty estimated through Item Response Theory (IRT) analysis. Three tests were given to 165 Japanese students,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Format, Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary
Lee, HyeSun; Winke, Paula – Language Testing, 2013
We adapted three practice College Scholastic Ability Tests (CSAT) of English listening, each with five-option items, to create four- and three-option versions by asking 73 Korean speakers or learners of English to eliminate the least plausible options in two rounds. Two hundred and sixty-four Korean high school English-language learners formed…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Stakeholders, Reliability, Listening Comprehension Tests
Pae, Tae-Il – Language Testing, 2012
This study tracked gender differential item functioning (DIF) on the English subtest of the Korean College Scholastic Aptitude Test (KCSAT) over a nine-year period across three data points, using both the Mantel-Haenszel (MH) and item response theory likelihood ratio (IRT-LR) procedures. Further, the study identified two factors (i.e. reading…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Academic Aptitude, Language Tests, Test Items
