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Testing young foreign language learners’ reading comprehension:Exploring the effects of working memory, grade level, and reading task
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Text authenticity in listening assessment:Can item writers be trained to produce authentic-sounding texts?
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A long-standing debate in the testing of listening concerns the authenticity of the listening input. On the one hand, listening texts produced by item-writers often lack spoken language characteristics. On the other hand, real-life recordings are often too context-specific to stand alone, or not suitable for item generation. In this study, we explored the effectiveness of an existing item-writing training course to produce authentic-sounding listening texts within the constraints of test specifications. Twenty-five trainees took an online item-writing course including training on creating authentic-sounding listening texts. Prior to and after the course, they developed a listening task. The resulting listening texts were judged on authenticity by three professional item reviewers and analysed linguistically by the researchers. Additionally, we interviewed the trainees following each item-writing event and analysed their online discussions from during the course. Statistical comparison of the pre-and post-course authenticity scores revealed a positive effect of the training on item-writers’ ability to produce authentic-sounding listening texts, while the linguistic analysis demonstrated that the texts produced after the training contained more instances of spoken language. The interviews and discussions revealed that item-writers’ awareness of spoken language features and their text production techniques influenced their ability to develop authentic-sounding texts.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/152542/ https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/152542/3/2021_LAQ_RossiBrunfaut_ListeningAuthenticity_AuthorAcceptedManuscript.pdf https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2021.1895162
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The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and language testing
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Perspectives on "knowing" a second language:What are we seeking to measure?
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Motivational factors in computer-administered integrated skills tasks:A study of young learners
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Trajectories of language assessment literacy in a teacher-researcher partnership:Locating elements of praxis through narrative inquiry
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International language proficiency standards in the local context:Interpreting the CEFR in standard setting for exam reform in Luxembourg
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Towards social justice for item writers:Empowering item writers through language assessment literacy training
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Is anybody listening?:The nature of second language listening in integrated listening-to-summarize tasks
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Language testing in the ‘hostile environment’:The discursive construction of ‘secure English language testing’ in the United Kingdom
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The role of working memory in young second language learners’ written performances
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Going online:The effect of mode of delivery on performances and perceptions on an English L2 writing test suite
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Exploring the role of phraseological knowledge in foreign language reading
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