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Proficiency Testing and Language Teaching: Russian and Polish [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2008 This paper explores the potential application of proficiency testing in U.S. colleges and universities. Specific consideration is giv-en to: the Oral Proficiency Interview, based on ILR or ACTFL guidelines, administered on a large scale at the Defense ...
Rimma Garn
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The Place of the Bifactor Model in Confirmatory Factor Analysis Investigations Into Construct Dimensionality in Language Testing. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 For practical and theoretical purposes, tests of second language (L2) ability commonly aim to measure one overarching trait, general language ability, while simultaneously measuring multiple sub-traits (e.g., reading, grammar, etc.). This tension between
Dunn KJ, McCray G.
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CULTURAL BIAS IN LANGUAGE TESTING
TEFLIN Journal, 2006 An issue that has recently been gaining more attention in the domain of language testing is item bias. Defined as the characteristic of an item which causes learners of the same abilities but of different social groups to perform differently, the bias ...
Patrisius Istiarto Djiwandono
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Software Testing With Large Language Models: Survey, Landscape, and Vision [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023 Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a breakthrough technology in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with the ability to handle large-scale datasets and exhibit remarkable performance across a wide range
Junjie Wang +5 more
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Large Language Models for Code: Security Hardening and Adversarial Testing [PDF]
Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023 Large language models (large LMs) are increasingly trained on massive codebases and used to generate code. However, LMs lack awareness of security and are found to frequently produce unsafe code.
Jingxuan He, Martin T. Vechev
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Challenges in Language Testing around the World: Insights for Language Test Users [PDF]
, 2022 Language testing has developed as a field that broadly extends to educational, societal and economic contexts (Yildiz, 2019). However, the past edited volumes grappling with the main themes in language testing are primarily exclusive and typically ...
Wong Kin Tat
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Exploring L2 Listening Instruction, Self-Efficacy, and Strategy Use: A Mediation Analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study aims to investigate different types of English listening instruction, listening self-efficacy, and listening strategy use, particularly the mediating role of self-efficacy between listening instruction and strategy use.
Jian Xu, Jason Fan, Kaizhou Luo
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Testing the Ability of Language Models to Interpret Figurative Language [PDF]
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Figurative and metaphorical language are commonplace in discourse, and figurative expressions play an important role in communication and cognition. However, figurative language has been a relatively under-studied area in NLP, and it remains an open ...
Emmy Liu +3 more
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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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Language Policy, 2022 AbstractDuring the past decades, migration policies in Western societies have grown stricter by the day. As part of this retrenchment, migrants are required to pass language tests to gain access to human and democratic rights such as residency, family reunification, and citizenship, as well as to enter the labour market or higher education.
Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen, Lorenzo Rocca
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