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  5. In the past decade, language assessment training has increasingly become a key research agenda in language testing and assessment, particularly within the Chinese context. Studies have explored the training of...

    Authors: Ling Gan and Ricky Lam

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2020 10:11

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Language Testing in Asia 2020 10:13

  6. Test takers’ individual characteristics may have a significant impact on their test performance (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, Language assessment in practice: Developing language assessments and justifying their use...

    Authors: Ying Bai

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2020 10:10

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  13. Recently, we have witnessed a growing interest in developing teachers’ language assessment literacy. The ever increasing demand for and use of assessment products and data by a more varied group of stakeholder...

    Authors: Christine Coombe, Hossein Vafadar and Hassan Mohebbi

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2020 10:3

    Content type: Review

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Language Testing in Asia 2020 10:15

  17. In writing assessment, finding a valid, reliable, and efficient scale is critical. Appropriate scales, increase rater reliability, and can also save time and money. This exploratory study compared the effects ...

    Authors: Heejeong Jeong

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:20

    Content type: Research

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  18. Whilst the role of disciplinary literacy in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is becoming more prominent, there appears to be little adaptation or allowance made for English as...

    Authors: Nadezhda Chubko, Julia E. Morris, David H. McKinnon, Eileen V. Slater and Geoffrey W. Lummis

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:19

    Content type: Research

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  19. This study examines the distribution of peer review in face-to-face and mobile-mediated peer review groups and their effects on students’ revision skills and academic writing development. Seventy-two first-yea...

    Authors: Ali Akbar Khomeijani Farahani, Majid Nemati and Mostafa Nazari Montazer

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:18

    Content type: Research

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  22. Despite the wide implementation of English graduation benchmark policy in Vietnam, students’ voices on this one-size-fits-all policy have still been under-researched and under-represented. The purpose of this ...

    Authors: Thinh Ngoc Pham and Lien Thi Phuong Bui

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:15

    Content type: Research

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  24. The purpose of this paper is to critically review the traditional and contemporary validation frameworks—the content, criterion, and construct validations; the evidence-gathering; the socio-cognitive model; th...

    Authors: Gwan-Hyeok Im, Dongil Shin and Liying Cheng

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:14

    Content type: Review

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  25. In our research project, we have developed a scoring rubric for a second language (L2) summary writing for English as a foreign language (EFL) students in Japanese universities. This study aimed to examine the...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Yamanishi, Masumi Ono and Yuko Hijikata

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:13

    Content type: Research

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  27. Research on the test-taker perception of assessments has been conducted under the assumption that negative test-taker perception may influence test performance by decreasing test-taking motivation. This assump...

    Authors: Yujia Zhou and Asako Yoshitomi

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:10

    Content type: Research

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  28. Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this...

    Authors: Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Md Shaiful Islam, Abdul Karim, Takad Ahmed Chowdhury, Muhammad Mushfiqur Rahman, Prodhan Mahbub Ibna Seraj and Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:9

    Content type: Review

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  30. This study investigates the effect of teacher’s written corrective feedback (WCF) on acquisition of explicit and implicit knowledge of simple past tense by language learners. Eighty-seven Iranian beginner lear...

    Authors: Majid Nemati, Sayyed Mohammad Alavi and Hassan Mohebbi

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:7

    Content type: Research

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  35. Teachers’ assessment literacy has recently captured the attention of scholars across various educational contexts. The literature has it that there is a gap between teachers’ assessment practices and national ...

    Authors: Tahereh Firoozi, Kioumars Razavipour and Alireza Ahmadi

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2019 9:2

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  38. This study reports on the development and validation of Language Assessment Knowledge Scale, LAKS, which aims to measure teachers’ language assessment knowledge. The initial development of the scale included a...

    Authors: Elçin Ölmezer-Öztürk and Belgin Aydin

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:20

    Content type: Research

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  41. After publication of this article (Alavi et al. 2018), it is noticed the third author’s affiliation is incorrect.

    Authors: Sayyed Mohammad Alavi, Shiva Kaivanpanah and Ali Panahi Masjedlou

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:17

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:8

  44. This study aims to develop a low-stakes assessment tool to establish a classroom English language benchmark that Japanese teachers of English can use for their own professional development purposes. To start w...

    Authors: Yoshiyuki Nakata, Osamu Ikeno, Yuzo Kimura, Naoyuki Naganuma and Stephen Andrews

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:15

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  45. Assessment is an essential part of any learning process; however, it is often disliked by most students. A wealth of research is available on issues on assessment, such as washback effect and test anxiety, and...

    Authors: Vahid Nimehchisalem and Nur Izyan Syamimi Mat Hussin

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:11

    Content type: Research

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  46. This study examined the relationships between students’ foreign language classroom anxiety and cognitive test anxiety and their College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) performance. A questionnaire was distributed ...

    Authors: Ying Zheng and Liying Cheng

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:13

    Content type: Research

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  49. A critical issue in International English Language Testing System (IELTS) lies in the significance of the validity of IELTS listening comprehension test (hereafter IELTS LCM). However IELTS listening validity ...

    Authors: Sayyed Mohammad Alavi, Shiva Kaivanpanah and Ali Panahi Masjedlou

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:8

    Content type: Research

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:17

  50. Validity is a notable concept in language testing which has concerned many researchers and scholars in the field of language testing due to its importance in decision making process. Tests’ results always intr...

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Esfandiari, Mohammad Javad Riasati, Helia Vaezian and Forough Rahimi

    Citation: Language Testing in Asia 2018 8:7

    Content type: Research

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