Titlebook: Challenges in Language Testing Around the World; Insights for languag Betty Lanteigne,Christine Coombe,James Dean Brown Book 2021 Springer

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James M. Skibo,Michael Brian Schifferpolicy was motivated by the desire to improve the speaking proficiency of students by directly assessing it in college entrance examinations. However, in Japan, an English-as-a-foreign-language context, students’ English proficiency, and speaking ability in particular, is greatly influenced by socio

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Studying Technological Differentiation, Canadian society, this chapter reflects on key issues related to the appropriateness of using standardized language test scores for purposes for which they were never designed. The study’s follow-up interviews featured the frustrating experiences of learners in the Language?Instruction for Newcomer

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76527-3nally agreed standards on the formal testing of language proficiency in aeronautical communications is clear evidence. Having such an obvious common goal in both specific purpose language domains, however, has not been without its challenges. Still prevalent are serious concerns over the validity, r

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76527-3ning activities. English foreign language tests in particular are no exception. There is a plethora of empirical research on the impact of high-stakes language tests upon language learning and teaching. To extend this scholarship, this chapter reports a case study that investigates the washback of t

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James M. Skibo,Michael Brian Schifferty, potentially allow for a multitude of acceptable answers that were neither intended nor anticipated, and can therefore be problematic for reliable scoring. This chapter examines the use of a specially developed marker support system for the Austrian EFL school-leaving exam, which uses such items

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James M. Skibo,Michael Brian Schifferment investigates a case where, November 2006–May 2009, a testing center in the Middle East did not follow TOEFL time interval protocol at that time, with 1,575 test takers allowed to attempt paper TOEFL versions as frequently as desired. This study analyzes score increase/decrease with frequency of

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