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Issues of validity and generalisability in the Grade 12 English Home Language examination
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2014 Very little research has been devoted to evaluating the national English Home Language (HL) curriculum and assessment system. Not only is there a lack of clarity on whether the language subject is being offered at an adequately high level to meet the ...
du Plessis, Colleen Lynne
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The use of ICT in the assessment of modern languages: the English context and European viewpoints [PDF]
, 2007 The ever increasing explosion of highly attractive multimedia resources on offer has boosted the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the teaching and learning of modern languages.
Aitchison J. +12 more
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Predictors of English Health Literacy among U.S. Hispanic Immigrants: The importance of language, bilingualism and sociolinguistic environment [PDF]
, 2016 In the United States, data confirm that Spanish-speaking immigrants are particularly affected by the negative health outcomes associated with low health literacy.
Hund, Lauren +2 more
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International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2021 Introduction Individual variability in the language outcomes of children with cochlear implantation (CI) is a major concern. In CI rehabilitation, there is lack of a protocol regarding uniform post-CI language assessment interval duration, which can ...
Vijay Kumar, Rachna Mehta
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Teacher-Based Language Assessment [PDF]
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2015 Davidson’s (2004) recommendations regarding qualifying teacher-based assessment have been considered as the basis for any discussion regarding the concept of teacher based-assessment because of the theoretical depth of his model. The present study, with noticing the comprehensiveness of Davidson’s model, aims at presenting the background of the teacher-
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Enhancing the Early Literacy Development of Children at Risk for Reading Difficulties [PDF]
, 2006 This paper reviews the dynamic and interactive links between the development of children’s language phonological awareness, and reading. Some of the key issues explored are procedures to enhance children’s language development, decoding and word ...
Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth, Hays, Ian
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Machine Learning–Driven Language Assessment
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 We describe a method for rapidly creating language proficiency assessments, and provide experimental evidence that such tests can be valid, reliable, and secure.
Burr Settles +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Behavioral evidence for the link between numerical and spatial representations comes from the spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect, consisting in faster reaction times to small/large numbers with the left/right hand respectively.
Carrie Georges +2 more
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Comparative assessment of young learners' foreign language competence in three Eastern European countries [PDF]
, 2009 This paper concerns teacher practices in, and beliefs about, the assessment of young learners' progress in English in three Eastern European countries (Slovenia, Croatia, and the Czech Republic).
Branka Cagran +9 more
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Degrees of adequacy: the disclosure of levels of validity in language assessment
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2019 The conceptualization of validity remains contested in educational assessment in general, and in language assessment in particular. Validation and validity are the subjective and objective sides of the process of building a systematic argument for the ...
Albert Weideman
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