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Direct linkShatz, Marilyn, Ed.; Wilkinson, Louise C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum. Leading experts explain how and why learning is different for ELLs and pinpoint specific best practices for the classroom, illustrated with vivid examples.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Characteristics, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedBrodkey, Dean; Young, Rodney – TESOL Quarterly, 1981
Describes a simple teacher-scored method which can be used to determine the proportion of correct usage in freshman ESL compositions. Concludes Correctness Scores provide a useful tool for investigation of hierarchy of significant errors in English and is a technique well-suited to supply data for future work along these lines. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
Peer reviewedSpolsky, Bernard – Language Testing, 1997
Argues that tests have always been used as a means of political and social control. Maintains that test results are unreliable, especially at the extremes, that their predictive power is weak and that language testers need to be skeptical and need to insist on complete information on candidates' backgrounds for selection decision making. (10…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Error Analysis (Language), Ethics, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedSweedler-Brown, Carol O. – College ESL, 1993
The effect of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) specific sentence-level errors was examined using 18 randomly chosen essays representing the range of ESL writing found in most large testing situations. Results suggest that graders with insufficient training in evaluating ESL essays differ in their judgment of the weight assigned to ESL error,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Essays
Peer reviewedHolm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara; Stow, Carol; Pert, Sean – Language Testing, 1999
Describes development of the Rochdale Assessment of Mirpuri Phonology, a phonological assessment for bilingual children that was administered to normally developing bilingual children as well as children suspected of having a speech disorder. Normally developing children showed phonological error patterns in English that are considered atypical of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Download full textFlammer, August; And Others – 1976
To meet the instructional needs of the hundreds of children who speak the Ladin and Surselvan Raeto-Romance dialects of Switzerland, spelling categories pertinent to the two dialects were established based on the spelling test concept of Rudolf Mueller. Following classic test analysis procedures, three diagnostic dictation tests (one in Ladin, two…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1984
This journal includes current information for English teachers (new publications, resource materials, textbooks, tests, and trends) and these articles: "Reliability in the Oral Bagrut Test" (Raphael Gefen); "A Methodological Approach to 'Rewrite Sentence' Drills" (Eliyahu Galore); "Translation as a Bagrut Subject"…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
