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The Teaching of Listening Comprehension and Communication Activities.
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Snow, Becky Gerlach; Perkins, Kyle – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article outlines a plan for developing listening comprehension materials for advanced students of English as a second language, based on formal and informal speech samples of natural discourse. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Instructional Materials, Interviews
Measuring Passage Contribution in ESL Reading Comprehension.
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Perkins, Kyle; Jones, Barbara – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Reports on an analysis of two administrations of two reading tests--the first time without the reading passages and the second time with the passages--in order to determine the extent to which questions can be answered without reading the texts on which they are based. (SED)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
On the Use of Composition Scoring Techiniques, Objective Measures, and Objective Tests to Evaluate ESL Writing Ability.
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Perkins, Kyle – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Summarizes and evaluates the major direct methods of assessing writing ability (holistic scoring, analytical scoring, and primary trait scoring) and the most popular indirect methods of predicting students' ability to write (T-unit analysis and a variety of published standardized tests). (EKN)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Holistic Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, Writing Evaluation
Semantic Constructivity in ESL Reading Comprehension.
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Perkins, Kyle – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
It was found that those who read English as a second language (ESL), like L1 individuals, use their knowledge of the world and contribute to information found in the text. However, ESL readers' contributions to the text may be marred by language interference, lack of background knowledge, faulty inferencing, and certain data- and…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Prior Learning
Using Objective Methods of Attained Writing Proficiency to Discriminate among Holistic Evaluations.
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Perkins, Kyle – TESOL Quarterly, 1980
Ten objective measures of writing proficiency were used to evaluate advanced ESL students' compositions. Only those objective measures taking the absence of errors into account discriminated among holistic evaluations of the compositions by experienced ESL teachers. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Measurement Techniques
A Behavioral Anchoring Analysis of Three ESL Reading Comprehension Tests.
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Perkins, Kyle; Brutten, Sheila R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
The results of a behavioral anchoring analysis of student performance on three English as a second language reading comprehension tests indicated that, for each of three proficiency levels, the higher ability students could comprehend questions with implicit information sources. All students showed competence with linguistic structures that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension