Abstract A systematic review of research on oral language assessments for four-to-eight-year-old children was undertaken to support a six-year action research project aimed toward co-creating ...

Recent advances in language assessment have illuminated the complex interplay of rater behaviour and scoring procedures in educational settings. Studies in this field investigate how factors such as ...

Test preparation and washback in English language assessment represent critical areas of inquiry that investigate the reciprocal influences between assessment practices and learning strategies.

An ad hoc committee will evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency and that the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) could potentially use to ...

Shyness can influence a child’s performance in language assessments, depending on the level of social interaction required to complete the test. A recent study from SMU psychologist Sarah Kucker and a ...

THE ATTITUDES of educators of the deaf and other professionals in deaf education concerning assessment of the use of American Sign Language (ASL) and other sign systems was investigated. A ...

New-age tools such as AI may have created a window for a paradigm shift in language learning and assessment, but we should tread cautiously. The linguistic landscape of the South Asian subcontinent is ...

The WIDA ACCESS language proficiency test is used across close to 40 states as part of the federal requirement to determine whether English learners continue to need language-development services. The ...

English proficiency is crucial to economic success in our globally connected reality. The increased demands for higher levels of English skills across a much wider range of jobs drives a need for more ...

Unit 3 of the CCEA GCSE English Language qualification is a controlled assessment unit based on Studying Spoken and Written Language. In this unit, students will be asked to complete two controlled ...