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Challenging Student Approaches to ESL Vocabulary Development.
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Lessard-Clouston, Michael – TESL Canada Journal, 1994
Describes the use of a questionnaire on ESL (English-as-a-Second-Language) students' methods of vocabulary learning as a springboard for class discussion of helpful strategies suggested in the literature. Background for the activity is described, procedures and results are outlined, and suggestions for using a similar questionnaire in other ESL…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Technology in Testing: The Present and the Future.
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Alderson, J. Charles – System, 2000
Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of computer-based language tests, explores in detail developments in Internet-based testing using the examples of the Test of English as a Foreign Language and DIALANG--an innovative on-line suite of diagnostic tests and self-assessment procedures in 14 European languages--and outlines a research agenda for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Futures (of Society), Internet, Language Tests
In Conversation with John Read on Language Testing and Assessment
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Pang, Alvin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
John Read is about to retire as Professor in Applied Language Studies at the University of Auckland. He previously taught applied linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Victoria University of Wellington, the SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, the University of Texas El Paso,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning