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(2011)This study investigated English as a second language students' language needs in an academic listening and speaking course at an American university and examined whether the course met their needs. Prior to the data ...
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(2012-05-12)This study conducted a needs analysis of ELI 72 (Reading for Foreign Students) to contribute to the continued development of ELI 72 by identifying any ongoing needs that should be addressed, or addressed in more depth. ...
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(2004)This project investigates the creation of a test administration system with the ability to serve users both in centralized and geographically distributed contexts, and that is upgradeable in the type and format of test ...
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(2001)This study investigates patterns of connectors in L2 academic writing and the effects of instruction on students’ output in the use of connectors. Specifically, the current study examines 1) how ESL learners’ writing ...
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(2013-05-01)This dissertation uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine English L2 speakers’ participation in an innovative multiparty pragmatic assessment activity. In contrast to previous interlanguage pragmatics research, this ...
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(1997)This preliminary study reports the results of needs analysis, which assesses the degree to which the English Language Institute (ELI) satisfies the program objectives for oral proficiency and how the concerned parties ...
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(2003)The purpose of this study is to analyze the needs that distinguish the separate and/or overlapping goals of undergraduate students and graduate students in the ELI 73 course. Although undergraduate and graduate students ...
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(2005)This paper proposes a task-based approach to developing the discussion skills of ESL students’ listening/speaking class, dealing mostly with the methodological considerations for task-based syllabus and lesson designs. It ...
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(2007)This paper presents an analysis of the academic listening test (ALT) utilizing Rasch analysis, which has been utilized as a test development method. Through the analysis this study investigates what has been measured at ...
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(2005)This paper reports on the process of developing vocabulary test items to be included in English Language Institute (ELI) reading placement test. In developing test items for the ELI Vocabulary Test, a subset of reading ...
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(2007)This essay reports on reflections on experience of teaching ESL reading. By reflecting on diverse aspects of teaching ranging from establish students’ achievement goals, classroom managements, technology, materials, ...
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(2007)The study aimed to explore the relationship between learning strategy, motivation, and autonomy especially focusing on L2 vocabulary learning. Assuming that autonomous learning is essential for L2 vocabulary learning, it ...
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Rethinking Needs in an English Language Program: Three Case Studies in English for Academic Purposes (1998)Individual case studies were undertaken to investigate the English listening and speaking needs of three international students at an American university. The purpose of this research was to determine how well the English ...
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(2008)As part of continuing efforts to improve the overall efficiency of the ELI, and especially the ELI placement test (ELIPT), this project investigates an oral interview procedure that re-assesses learners’ language proficiency ...
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(2004)Inspired by the limitation of current listening/speaking diagnostics at ELI, which lacks feedback directed to students, developing rating scales for oral presentation and group discussion activities was deemed useful. After ...
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(2007)Inspired by contradictory findings and an overwhelming focus on comparing cohesive devices with the quality of writing in previous research, this study seeks to provide a descriptive, more nuanced picture of cohesion in ...
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A Small Story Speaks Louder: Insights from an Internal Evaluation of the Discussion Circle Project (2012)This paper reports on a small-scale internal evaluation of the Discussion Circle (DC) project within the English Language Institute (ELI) Listening and Speaking level 80 class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Four ...
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(2004)This study attempts to yield a better understanding of the difficulties international students are facing in their socialization process into North-American academic culture through leading discussion circles in their ESL ...
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(2007)The study reported aims at arriving at more reasonable and defensible cut points for the Academic Listening Test (ALT), a listening sub-test of the ELIPT (English Language Institute Placement Test). To identify a reasonable ...
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(2009)The present study analyzes non-native speakers’ use of lexical bundles in written production. Wiring samples were obtained from essay writings at a placement test at English Language Institute (ELI). The corpus analysis ...