This test review aims to provide a critical evaluation of the English Language Proficiency
Assessment for the 21st Century (ELPA 21), a large-scale, standards-based English …

The increase in non-native English (NNE) instructors involved in English-medium instruction
(EMI) in higher education has led to growing concerns about the evaluation of lecturers' …

This article brings to the fore trends in second language (L2) pronunciation research,
teaching, and assessment by highlighting the ways in which pronunciation instructional …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …

Evaluating candidates' answers in speaking skill is difficult and rarely explored. This task is
challenging and can bring inconsistency in the rating quality among raters, especially in …

Prosodic features are important in achieving intelligibility, comprehensibility, and fluency in a
second or foreign language (L2). However, research on the assessment of prosody as part …

This study examines L2 speakers' accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and
current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different …

This study set out to examine existence of a shared-dialect effect, a phenomenon that when
a rater shares the same dialect with a candidate, the rater is more likely to give the candidate …

This article focuses on rater severity and consistency and their relation to different types of
rater experience over a long period of time. The article is based on longitudinal data …

In the present study, I examined the effects of rater characteristics, in particular, raters'
familiarity with a foreign accent, on the assessment of second language (L2) pronunciation …