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Abridged Estimate of Inter-rater Reliability in ELI Writing Assessment

Koyama, Dennis; Silver, Dan (2006)

The current study investigates the reliability estimates of the newly adopted writing placement test at ELI. To examine whether three raters’ judgment on learner level were consistent enough to justify the placement, ...
Addressing silence, dominance and off-task talk in group work in an academic writing class

Sharma, Bal Krishna (2012)

This study aims to investigate the teacher role in mediating the task and the learner in an advanced academic writing class. Having identified three types of learner (non-) participation– silence, dominance and off-task ...
Administrator Interview Report: Planning Released Teachers' Projects

Omori, Makoto (2007)

This study reports interviews with an administrator about the released teachers' projects in the English for Academic Program at UHM. Due to unpredictable fluctuation of student enrollment, EAP sometimes release a few ...
Advice-seeking and Advice-giving in the ELI CAM: Construction of Novice/Expert Status

Yang, Wei-Wei (2006)

In a Curriculum Area Meeting (CAM) at ELI, dynamics in dialogues emerge with regards to different group dynamics, participation patterns and language uses. This is assumed to be attributed to the many interweaving identities ...
An Analysis of Reliability and Item Fuction of the ELIPT Dictation Test

Davis, Larry (2008)

Dictation is commonly used as an integrative test of listening skills, yet relatively little has been published about the psychometric qualities of this format. Moreover, dictation test scores are problematic to analyze ...
An Assessment of Performance Differentials by Gender and Educational Level in ELI Placement Test

Lekprichakul, Thamana (2005)

This study attempts to examine test fairness in terms of sub-group bias (gender and educational level) and validity of ELI placement test. Four components of the test including academic listening, dictation, cloze test, ...
Comparing Teacher and Student Perceptions about Second Language Writing Feedback

Johnstun, Ann (2008)

This study examines the discrepancies between teachers’ and students’ perceptions on L2 writing feedback. In a survey of 47 students and six teachers at an English Intensive Program, it investigated whether teachers’ ...
Conceding in Disagreements during Small Group Interactions in Academic Writing Class

Sharma, Bal Krishna (2011)

Using conversation analysis as a methodological and analytical framework, this study presents a sequential analysis of disagreement episodes in small group interactions in an advanced academic writing class. Closer scrutiny ...
The Construct Validation of ELI Listening Placement Tests

Chun, Jean Young (2011)

This study presents the validation process for the listening placement tests administered by the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The research questions are: (a) How does the ELI define ...
Corrective Feedback and Learner Uptake during a Small Group Activity in an ELI Context

Choi, Yun Deok (2007)

Despite a lot of empirical supports for the benefits of meaning negotiation with peers, little has been reported in its descriptive nature. Thus, the present study investigates corrective feedback and learner uptake during ...
Correlation and Reliability Project: Analyzing the ELI reading placement test

Jeong, Hyejin; Lim, Eunjeong (2008)

This report analyzes the Reading Placement Test (RPT) of the English Language institute (ELI) at UHM, which measures students’ reading ability through gap-filling test and reading comprehension test. To test item reliability ...
Descriptive Study on Corrective Feedback and Learner Uptake during Interactions between a Teacher and Students in terms of Recast versus Prompts

Choi, Yun Deok (2007)

The present study investigated corrective feedback and learner uptake during interactions between a teacher and students with advanced level English proficiency, especially in terms of recast versus prompts, in a natural ...
Design, Results, and Analysis of a Plagiarism Test for Advanced ELI Writing Classes

McClanahan, Kelly (2005)

This study reports on the development of criterion-referenced test (CRT) for students’ awareness on plagiarism and examines learners’ ability to properly cite the sources. Based on plagiarism module created by Mark Messer ...
Developing a Task-based Assessment of EAP Pragmatics

Youn, Soo Jung (2008)

The study attempts to identify L2 learners’ pragmatic needs in a university EAP program, as well as the ways that EAP needs could be incorporated into the current curriculum. First, needs analysis were conducted through ...
Differentiating Beginning ESL Undergraduate and Graduate Students' Writing Needs

Li, Fang-I (2004)

In order to facilitate improvement of an effective academic writing curriculum, this study analyzes the separate and/or overlapping writing needs of beginning undergraduate students and graduate students in an intermediate ...
Dissertation Writing for NNES Students Regarding Writing Process, Difficulties, and Support

Hsu, Wei-Li (2010)

This study investigates non-native English speaking (NNES) graduate students' difficulties and challenges in writing academic papers including scholarly papers (SP), master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation. Through ...
Drawing on Theories of Critical Academic Literacies in the ELI 83 Classroom

McClanahan, Kelly (2005)

This research investigates ways of supporting students’ development of L2 academic literacies. Specifically, the study seeks to (1) describe theories and research on critical literacies and writing development and (2) ...
EAP Listening and Speaking: From Needs Analysis to Evaluation

Chan, Elisa; Ham, Koeun (2007)

This project intends to obtain information about students’ needs at an English intensive program at a university, especially a listening and speaking curriculum area. Fourteen undergraduate students who enrolled in an ...
The Effect of Learners’ Proficiency on the Provision of Implicit Negative Feedback and Its Incorporation in the Interaction between Non-native Speakers of English

Kim, Yong Hwan (2005)

This research proposal will investigate the effect of learners’ proficiency on the provision of implicit negative feedback and the incorporation of the feedback. The study will be a descriptive and exploratory study as it ...
The Effects of Glosses and Tasks on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Pilot Study

Lee, Jung Min (2007)

This study investigates the effects of different types of glosses and task inclusion on incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition. Specifically, it seeks to answer how different types of glosses and inclusion of a task affect ...