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Karatas, Tuçe Öztürk – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
In the 21st century, with the rise of the popularity of standardized or large-scale tests, their high-stakes have started to be apparent. High-stake tests are not new, but in most cases, their current use as social practice tends to shape individuals' futures. Currently the new trend for their quality discussion aims to critically evaluate tests…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Test Use
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Benesch, Sarah – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This article explores the relationship between teachers' emotions and possibilities for their activism. Using the lens of emotion labor and grounded in a discursive approach to emotions, it examines English language teachers' responses to institutional power. High-stakes literacy testing is used as an example of top-down institutional policies…
Descriptors: Activism, Emotional Response, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hoang, Ngoc T. H.; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
As the power of tests lies in their uses, language tests that are used to assess immigration eligibility exercise enormous power. Critical Language Testing calls for exposing the power of tests by examining the intentions of introducing tests and their effects on individuals and society, especially from the perspective of test-takers. This case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Tests, Testing
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Abedi, Elham – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The development of speech-act theory has provided the hearers with a better understanding of what speakers intend to perform in the act of communication. One type of speech act is apologizing. When an action or utterance has resulted in an offense, the offender needs to apologize. In the present study, an attempt was made to compare the apology…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shohamy, Elana – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
While much of the work in language testing is concerned with constructing quality tests in order to measure language knowledge in reliable and valid ways, there has been a significant movement in language testing research that examines tests in the context of their use in education and society. This line of research exits from the notion that…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Evaluation Research, Ideology
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Blackledge, Adrian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Research in multilingual societies often attends to the micro level of linguistic interactions, as linguistic minority speakers negotiate their way through a majority-language world. However, this research does not always engage with the social, political and historical contexts that produce and reproduce the conditions within which some…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Language Minorities, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism