This article examines the relationship between Japanese undergraduate students' English
language proficiency and English language-related challenges faced when studying an …

Test purpose: The primary purpose of the Test of English for International Communication
(TOEIC®) is to measure the everyday English skills of individuals, who speak a first …

The present case study examined factors that mediated interaction among 3 Asian learners
of English while they collaboratively wrote a summary using Google Docs and text-chat …

In second language (L2) research, the lexical unit is often defined as a base word plus
inflectional and derivational forms through Level 6 of Bauer and Nation's framework (WF6) …

This study implemented the principles of dynamic assessment (DA) with computer
technology, iSpring Quiz Maker, to (1) identify the English listening difficulties of 172 L2 …

In this study we examined the extent to which TOEIC® Speaking test scores relate to
evaluations by professionals in the international workplace, the target language use domain …

This study uses online surveys and phone interviews with Taiwanese college students to
investigate their perceptions of using the TOEIC® test scores to meet an English‐language …

One of the many education reforms in Thailand is a policy aimed at improving English
language proficiency among university students. One direction in this policy requires that …

This study examines the extent to which TOEIC Writing test scores relate to an external
criterion: evaluations by linguistic laypersons of the functional adequacy of writing in the …

In recent years, corrective feedback has attracted L2 pragmatics researchers' attention. This
study examined the effects of direct and metapragmatic corrective feedback on the learning …