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Al Roomy, Muhammad A. – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The emergency transition to online learning due to COVID-19 has forced many sectors to respond quickly. The readiness of educational institutes to attend to the abrupt crisis and shift to teach remotely is practiced at different levels. Online assessment is one of them. Rapid advances in technology and software applications are changing the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teacher Attitudes
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Phuong, Do Thi Vu – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
This study investigated common written errors and the causes that language learners frequently commit. A descriptive qualitative approach was conducted with the participation of 57 eleventh-graders at a high school in Hung Yen province during the second term of the academic year 2021-2022. The respondents were requested to participate in five…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sharakhimov, Shoaziz; Nurmukhamedov, Ulugbek – English Teaching Forum, 2021
Vocabulary learning is an incremental process. Vocabulary knowledge, especially for second-language learners, may develop across a lifetime. Teachers with experience in providing feedback on their students' vocabulary use in writing or speech might have noticed that it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint one aspect of word knowledge. The reason is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Whittle, Ruth – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Enthused about Healey's (2017) concept of approaching student learning as a creative process in which students could be partners (see also Healey, Flit, & Harrington, 2016; Healey & Jenkins, 2009), I redesigned one of my existing courses to follow this approach. My case study explores how I introduced students to the concept, the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Student Research, Researchers
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Yuen Yi Lo; Daniel Fung; Xuyan Qiu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
As the content knowledge of English language learners and immigrant students is assessed in their less proficient language, the validity and fairness of assessments related to those students have been widely discussed. However, such assessment issues have not received much attention in rapidly expanding bilingual education programmes, where…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation
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Buczek-Zawila, Anita – Teaching English with Technology, 2021
The study focuses on the process of assessing (a micro-skill) goal attainment in EFL pronunciation course via measures which can foster different students' attitudes and self-perceptions. Standard (pen-and-paper) tests offer immediate evidence of success but they put heavy demands on students' cognitive, performance and stress-controlling skills.…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Teymour Rahmati; Musa Nushi – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Drawing on duoethnography, the teacher researchers in the present study interacted with the relevant literature, engaged in dialogs, and shared artifacts to examine their knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding fairness and justice considerations in technology-enhanced language classroom assessment. Under the domain of knowledge, they…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High Stakes Tests
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Shohamy, Elana; Tannenbaum, Michal; Gani, Anna – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Notwithstanding the introduction of education multilingual policies worldwide, testing and assessment procedures still rely almost exclusively on the monolingual construct. This paper describes a study, part of a larger project fostering a new multilingual education policy in Israeli schools, exploring bi/multilingual assessment. It included two…
Descriptors: Scores, Comparative Analysis, Hebrew, Arabic
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Bakhoda, Iman; Shabani, Karim – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
Computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) brings the rationality of assessment-instruction integration behind dynamic assessment (DA) into computerized context through the presentation of electronic mediations (Poehner). This study attempts to unravel L2 learners' actual/developed ability and learning potential in a C-DA reading comprehension context…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Computer Assisted Instruction
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Goertler, Senta; Gacs, Adam – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2018
As online educational programs and courses increase (Allen & Seaman, [Allen, I. E., 2014]), it is important to understand the benefits and limitations of this delivery format when assessing students and when comparing learning outcomes. This article addresses the following two questions: (1) What are some of the best practices in assessing…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, German
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Alberola Colomar, María Pilar – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This article presents and analyses a classroom-based assessment method to test students' speaking skills in a variety of professional settings in tourism. The assessment system has been implemented in the Communication in English for Tourism course, as part of the Tourism Management degree programme, at Florida Universitaria (affiliated to the…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Tourism, Oral Language, Language Tests
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Bae, Jungok; Lee, Yae-Sheik – Language Testing, 2011
Pictures are widely used to elicit expressive language skills, and pictures must be established as parallel before changes in ability can be demonstrated by assessment using pictures prompts. Why parallel prompts are required and what it is necessary to do to ensure that prompts are in fact parallel is not widely known. To date, evidence of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Test Format, Language Tests, Factor Analysis
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Molina, Maria Teresa Lopez-Mezquita – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
Lexical competence is considered to be an essential step in the development and consolidation of a student's linguistic ability, and thus the reliable assessment of such competence turns out to be a fundamental aspect in this process. The design and construction of vocabulary tests has become an area of special interest, as it may provide teachers…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries
Tsagari, Dina – Online Submission, 2007
The review presented and discussed in this paper explores the theoretical underpinnings and research findings of the washback of high-stakes tests in the field of language teaching and testing as well general education and suggests areas and ways of researching the phenomenon in the future. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Testing, Influences, Language Tests, High Stakes Tests
Greis, Naguib – 1995
A discussion of testing in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction focuses on the gap between ESL students' test performance on the one hand and their own and teachers' assessments of their competence on the other. First, a number of issues, drawn from the literature, are examined briefly, including the appropriateness of current testing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Peer Evaluation, Second Language Instruction
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