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The psychometric status of child language assessment tools in South Africa’s official languages [PDF]
South African Journal of Communication DisordersDespite advancements in recognising the importance of early child language development and linguistic diversity in South Africa, culturally and linguistically appropriate assessment tools remain unevenly distributed across the official languages, posing ...
Frenette Southwood +4 more
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Corrigendum: An Extensive Knowledge Mapping Review of Measurement and Validity in Language Assessment and SLA Research [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Vahid Aryadoust +4 more
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Syntactic Complexity and Communicative Moves of Applied Linguistics Research Article Abstracts: A Function first Approach [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2023 There is currently a growing tendency to a meaning-based approach to the analysis of syntactic complexity in academic writing. While previous studies have offered illuminating insights into linguistic realizations of rhetorical structures in relation ...
Rajab Esfandiari +2 more
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The effect of incongruous contextual cues on pictorial metaphor processing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 An eye-tracking experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of incongruous contextual cues, both perceptual and conceptual, on pictorial metaphor processing.
Yongyi Mo, Rong Zhou, Xi Chen
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A Critical Review of the Book Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment (Fundamental Techniques and Advanced Methods) [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2021 Given the significant role of quantitative data in theory building in language assessment, the need for a book covering data analysis methods is strongly felt.
Rajab Esfandiari
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Distinct from nominal metaphors, predicate metaphors entail metaphorical abstraction from concrete verbs, which generally involve more action and stronger motor simulation than nouns.
Yin Feng, Yin Feng, Rong Zhou, Rong Zhou
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Language Testing in Asia, 2022 In the US K–12 public school settings, each state’s annual English language proficiency (ELP) assessment, as part of an educational accountability system, has tremendous impact on English learner (EL) students’ academic paths and success.
Mikyung Kim Wolf
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 As a new generation of measurement theory, cognitive diagnosis theory shows significant potential and advantages in educational evaluation in that it combines a cognitive process and a measurement method.
Li Li, Yi An, Jie Ren, Xiaoman Wei
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Languages, 2022 Code-switching (CSW) is the phenomenon where speakers use two or more languages in a single discourse or utterance—an increasingly recognised natural product of multilingualism in many settings.
Li Nguyen, Zheng Yuan, Graham Seed
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On the Reliability of the Notion of Native Signer and Its Risks
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Who is a native signer? Since around 95% of deaf infants are born into a hearing family, deaf signers are exposed to a sign language at various moments of their life, and not only from birth.
Giorgia Zorzi +9 more
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