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Direct linkYan, Xun; Fan, Jason – Language Testing, 2021
Recent investigations into language assessment literacy (LAL) suggest that stakeholder groups might differ in interests, needs, and expectations in assessment practice, resulting in different LAL profiles. This qualitative study furthers this line of research by examining the effect of contextual and experiential factors on the LAL profiles and…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Language Tests, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Greer, Tim, Ed.; Tatsuki, Donna, Ed.; Roever, Carsten, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2013
"Pragmatics & Language Learning. Volume 13" examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers' talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic and experimental activities. Based on data collected among ESL and EFL learners from a variety of backgrounds, the contributions explore the nexus of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes
Download full textdi Gennaro, Kristen – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2008
Higher education settings in the United States typically include several types of writing assessments. Since tests determining students' placement into writing courses are often high-stakes, it is imperative for those who make placement decisions to be knowledgeable of the different types of learners entering higher education in order to make…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Testing, College Students, Writing Tests
The Relationship Between Individual Differences in Learner Creativity and Language Learning Success.
Peer reviewedOtto, Istvan – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Discusses the rationale for, and end results of, a small-scale study of the effects of learners' creativity on language learning. The study was part of an ongoing, larger-scale project on individual differences at Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Creativity, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedLittlemore, Jeannette – TESOL Quarterly, 2001
Examines metaphoric competence and its relationship to cognitive style and second language learning and teaching. Describes four measured aspects of metaphoric competence in participants' first and second language: originality of metaphor production; ability to find meaning in metaphor; speed in finding meaning in metaphor; and fluency of metaphor…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
