The present study investigates the efficacy of preparation time in four speaking tasks of
TOEFL iBT. As the current pre-task planning time offered by ETS is very short, 15 to 30 …

In response to the calls for making key stakeholders' perspectives relevant in the test
validation process, the study discussed in this report sought test‐taker feedback as part of …

This study examined the role of discourse organization in second language (L2)
comprehensibility ratings. Twelve English for Academic Purposes teachers listened to 60 L2 …

Language assessment is increasingly computermediated. This development presents
opportunities with new task formats and equally a need for renewed scrutiny of established …

Extensive oral tasks or monologues of different types (eg, presentations, storytelling) are
often used as second language acquisition tasks in the fields of language learning and …

This study aimed to explore the effects of task complexity, perceived task difficulty, and
working memory capacity (WMC) in listen-to-speak tasks, in second language (L2) English …

More children are learning English as a foreign language whether at school or in
extracurricular lessons. This has increased the demand for tests aimed at younger learners …

The multiliteracies framework provides a pedagogical approach relevant to English
language direct entry pathway (DEP) programs at university, recognising that education and …

In the globalization era, the world has entered a competition to master, build, and introduce
new technologies. The article was to classify the responses of students in using of Google …

This study investigates the effects of individual differences in working memory and different
lengths of planning time on oral responses from an integrated listen-to-speak task, both in …