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ERIC Number: EJ1350914
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Oct
Pages: 31
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0265-5322
EISSN: EISSN-1477-0946
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Register Variation in Spoken and Written Language Use across Technology-Mediated and Non-Technology-Mediated Learning Environments
Kyle, Kristopher; Eguchi, Masaki; Choe, Ann Tai; LaFlair, Geoff
Language Testing, v39 n4 p618-648 Oct 2022
In the realm of language proficiency assessments, the domain description inference and the extrapolation inference are key components of a validity argument. Biber et al.'s description of the lexicogrammatical features of the spoken and written registers in the T2K-SWAL corpus has served as support for the TOEFL iBT test's domain description and extrapolation inferences. In the time since the T2K-SWAL corpus was collected, however, university learning environments have increasingly become technology-mediated. Accordingly, any description of the linguistic features of university language should account for the language produced in technology-mediated learning environments (TMLEs) in addition to non-technology-mediated learning environments (non-TMLEs). Kyle et al. recently began to address this issue by collecting a corpus of TMLE language use, which they then compared to language use in non-TMLEs using multidimensional analysis (MDA). The results indicated both similarities and substantive differences across the learning environments, but the study did not investigate the effects of particular registers on these results. In this study, we build on previous research by investigating lexicogrammatical features of specific spoken and written registers across technology-mediated and non-technology-mediated learning environments.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Test of English as a Foreign Language
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