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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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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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This study investigated the role of working memory (WM) in the second language (L2) writing performance of young English language learners. It also examined how L2 writing achievement relates to task type and grade level and whether the effect of cognitive abilities varies across different task types and grade level. The participants were 94 young learners (Grades 6 and 7) in Hungary, who performed four writing task types as part of the TOEFL® Junior™ Comprehensive test-battery and completed cognitive tests that assessed their WM functions. Participants scored high on the email writing and integrated Listen-Write tasks. Irrespective of WM functions, on average learners in Grade 7 outperformed those in Grade 6 on the Listen-Write task and the Email task. Students gained lower scores on the non-academic version of an editing task than on most other types of tasks. WM functions had no significant relationship with L2 writing scores, except for the academic editing task. In Grade 7, the effect of WM was not significant on the integrated Listen-Write task, but it resulted in the change of expected score. Learners with high working memory in Grade 6 showed somewhat more consistent performance across tasks than did learners with low working memory.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2019.03.002 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/133695/
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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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