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Test Review: ACCESS for ELLs[R]

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Fox, Janna; Fairbairn, Shelley – Language Testing, 2011

This article reviews Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State-to-State for English Language Learners ("ACCESS for ELLs"[R]), which is a large-scale, high-stakes, standards-based, and criterion-referenced English language proficiency test administered in the USA annually to more than 840,000 English Language Learners (ELLs), in…

Descriptors: Test Preparation, Feedback (Response), Instructional Design, Testing Accommodations

Translation as a Language Testing Procedure: Does It Work?

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Buck, Gary – Language Testing, 1992

Two studies are reported that examined translation from second language to first language as a testing procedure. Results suggest that the widespread rejection of translation as a language testing procedure by teachers and testers is probably not warranted on psychometric grounds, but that it should be used with extreme care. (10 references)…

Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Language Tests