Background: Language assessment is widely used to determine learners’ proficiency; however, the accuracy of score interpretation depends on the quality of the measurement instrument. Aims: This study aims to evaluate the psychometric quality of the Arabic Language Fluency Assessment (ALFA) using Classical Test Theory....
PURPOSE Measuring language proficiency in the presence of nonmainstream dialect variation is a crucial task for clinicians and language researchers. Evaluations of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test (DELV-ST) have suggested that its items do not conform to the recommended scoring rules. The...
This study validates the English–Japanese Phrasal Vocabulary Size Test (E–J PVST), a bilingual adaptation of the Phrasal Vocabulary Size Test (Martinez, 2011) assessing receptive knowledge of high-frequency English phrasal expressions among L1 Japanese adults. Using Chapelle et al.’s (2008) argument-based validation fr...
Grammatical metaphor (GM) has been empirically demonstrated to have a significant positive correlation with the quality of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing, with higher‐scoring writings tending to utilize a greater number of GMs. Among the various types of GM, grammatical metaphor nominalization (GMN) is a...
Lexical and syntactic complexity are important indicators of second language writing proficiency, particularly in assessment-oriented contexts such as IELTS Writing Task 2. However, limited attention has examined whether selected complexity measures can distinguish closely related IELTS band levels. A small-scale learn...
Although lexical richness is an important feature of L2 writing quality, research on its predictive ability in university entrance tests, particularly in the Thai EFL context, is limited. Following Read’s (2000) framework, this study analyzes the relationship between lexical richness and academic writing performance in...
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