ABSTRACT The Duolingo English Test (DET) is a computer adaptive test of English
proficiency that is increasingly used for English-medium university admissions purposes …

This guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping
learners at all levels of proficiency develop their listening and speaking skills and fluency …

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The purpose of this study is to discuss the effects of audiovisual input on second language
acquisition (SLA) and the factors that influence the difficulty of audiovisual learning through …

Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics provide comprehensive overviews of the key
topics in applied linguistics. All entries for the handbooks are specially commissioned and …

The aim of this study was to investigate how test methods affect listening test takers'
performance and cognitive load. Test methods were defined and operationalized as while …

Corpus-based studies have offered the domain definition inference for test developers. Yet,
corpus-based studies on temporal fluency measures (eg, speech rate) have been limited …

Studies have shown that test-takers tend to use keyword-matching strategies when taking
listening tests. Keyword-matching involves matching content words in the written modality …

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 …

In many ways, the assessment of L2 listening ability is more challenging than the
assessment of the other language skills, and major questions and disagreements exist …