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Validity in Language Assessment

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
All previous papers on language assessment in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics make explicit reference to validity. These reviews, like other work on language testing, use the term to refer to the quality or acceptability of a test. Beneath the apparent stability and clarity of the term, however, its meaning and scope have shifted over the past
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Assessments of Adolescent Language

Seminars in Speech and Language, 1995
I have stressed that language and learning disabilities that are exhibited in the preschool or elementary school years often persist into adolescence but that the characteristics and implications of these disabilities change with the preadolescent and adolescent transitions to metalinguistic maturity.
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Language Assessment Literacy in Second Signed Language Assessment Contexts

2022
Abstract There are growing numbers of students who enroll sign language programs. Most of them are hearing students whose first language is in the aural-oral modality. Learning signed language challenges them to communicate via the visual-manual modality; a process that is known to be demanding (Kemp, 1998).
Eveline Boers-Visker, Annemiek Hammer
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Descriptive and Assessment Languages

1999
How can we economically describe a state in a knowledge structure? The question is inescapable because, as pointed out earlier, realistic states will typically be quite large. In such cases, it is impractical to describe a state by giving the full list of items that it contains.
Jean-Claude Falmagne, Jean-Paul Doignon
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Understanding language assessment literacy: Developing language assessments

2018
Please fill up the following information accurately. (Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt. Understanding language assessment literacy: Developing language assessmentsLanguage assessment literacy has become a critical competence for a language teacher to have. Accordingly, there are many studies in the literature which have researched different aspects of
YASTIBAŞ, Ahmet Erdost, TAKKAÇ, Mehmet
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An assessment of the programming language PASCAL

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1975
The programming language PASCAL is assessed in the light of “reliable programming” and with the background of five years of experience with the language. Some features are selected to point out remaining problems, either inherent or specific, from which some guidelines for the design or choice of languages for reliable programming are derived.
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Assessment of language impairment and function

2022
This chapter is written for the qualified neurologist or related professional working with persons who have had a stroke or other sudden brain injury. It is critical that the presence of aphasia is detected, no matter how mild the presentation, and to support that assertion, this chapter highlights the plight of persons with latent aphasia.
Jessica D, Richardson, Sarah Grace, Dalton   +1 more
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Language, Literacy and Assessment of Language

British Educational Research Journal, 1982
(1982). Language, Literacy and Assessment of Language. British Educational Research Journal: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 85-90.
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Assessing Speech, Language, and Communication

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1999
This article discusses the assessment of communication skills in children from birth to 5 years of age. The different methods appropriate for different developmental levels and the relationship of collateral areas, such as hearing, cognition, and speech motor control to the communication process, are addressed.
R, Paul, W D, Marans
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Assessment of Language

1992
This chapter focuses on the evaluation of developmental language disorders. Those language disorders that result from neurological damage, specifically aphasia and cognitive impairments due to traumatic brain injury, are addressed in Chapter 9.
Kenneth G. Shipley, Julie G. McAfee
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