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Direct linkAndrew Runge; Sarah Goodwin; Yigal Attali; Mya Poe; Phoebe Mulcaire; Kai-Ling Lo; Geoffrey T. LaFlair – Language Testing, 2025
A longstanding criticism of traditional high-stakes writing assessments is their use of static prompts in which test takers compose a single text in response to a prompt. These static prompts do not allow measurement of the writing process. This paper describes the development and validation of an innovative interactive writing task. After the…
Descriptors: Material Development, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Writing Skills
Ying Xu; Xiaodong Li; Jin Chen – Language Testing, 2025
This article provides a detailed review of the Computer-based English Listening Speaking Test (CELST) used in Guangdong, China, as part of the National Matriculation English Test (NMET) to assess students' English proficiency. The CELST measures listening and speaking skills as outlined in the "English Curriculum for Senior Middle…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Listening Comprehension Tests
Hitoshi Nishizawa – Language Testing, 2024
Corpus-based studies have offered the domain definition inference for test developers. Yet, corpus-based studies on temporal fluency measures (e.g., speech rate) have been limited, especially in the context of academic lecture settings. This made it difficult for test developers to sample representative fluency features to create authentic…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
Isbell, Daniel R.; Kremmel, Benjamin – Language Testing, 2020
Administration of high-stakes language proficiency tests has been disrupted in many parts of the world as a result of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Institutions that rely on test scores have been forced to adapt, and in many cases this means using scores from a different test, or a new online version of an existing test, that can be taken…
Descriptors: Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Frost, Kellie; Clothier, Josh; Huisman, Annemiek; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Language Testing, 2020
Integrated speaking tasks requiring test takers to read and/or listen to stimulus texts and to incorporate their content into oral performances are now used in large-scale, high-stakes tests, including the TOEFL iBT. These tasks require test takers to identify, select, and combine relevant source text information to recognize key relationships…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Scoring Rubrics, Speech Communication, English (Second Language)
Römer, Ute – Language Testing, 2017
This paper aims to connect recent corpus research on phraseology with current language testing practice. It discusses how corpora and corpus-analytic techniques can illuminate central aspects of speech and help in conceptualizing the notion of lexicogrammar in second language speaking assessment. The description of speech and some of its core…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
