This study examines a classroom-based second-language speaking test that uses picture description tasks and rating scale of functional adequacy (FA) in terms measurement quality. We used four FA scores from 36371 Japanese learners English at two public senior high schools 44 undergraduate graduate students. Each examinee was evaluated by or three raters. many-facet Rasch to stack longitudinal d...

This study examines addressing choices by combining university students' and teachers’ perspectives, concentrating on the French pronominal address forms (tu, T vous, V). Our data consist of a triangulation an oral discourse completion task (ODCT), retrospective interviews, focus group discussions among informants consisting L2 speakers L1 Finnish French. In our analysis, we examined horizontal...

Research studies on second language (L2) morphosyntactic variation that include multiple learner course or experience levels often conduct separate statistical analyses of the factors affecting variation, one per level, and compare significant constraints their coefficients across these groups as an indication L2 development. This method comparing regression can lead to perception differences p...

Abstract Second language (L2) teachers may shy away from self-assessments because of warnings that students are not accurate self-assessors. This information stems meta-analyses in which self-assessment scores on average did correlate highly with proficiency test results. However, researchers mostly used Pearson correlations, when polyserial could be used. Furthermore, today can computer adapti...

Recently, speaking has played an increasingly important role in second/foreign language settings. However, in many Chinese universities, EFL students rarely communicate in English with other people effectively. The existing behavioristic role plays on New Horizon College English (NHCE) e-learning do not function successfully in supplementing EFL speaking classes. The present study aims at inves...

The present paper considers the perceived emotional weight of the phrase I love you in multilinguals’ different languages. The sample consists of 1459 adult multilinguals speaking a total of 77 different first languages. They filled out an on-line questionnaire with open and closed questions linked to language behavior and emotions. Feedback on the open question related to perceived emotional w...

In a previous study of native-English speaking university learners of a second language (Spanish) we observed an asymmetric pattern of ERP translation priming effects in L1 and L2 (Alvarez et al., 2003, Brain & Language, 87, 290-304) with larger and earlier priming on the N400 component in the L2 to L1, compared with the L1 to L2 direction. In the current study 20 native-Russian speakers who we...