Language, Dialect, and Register: Sociolinguistics and the Estimation of Measurement Error in the Testing of English Language Learners
Language, Dialect, and Register: Sociolinguistics and the Estimation of Measurement Error in the Testing of English Language Learners
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语言、方言和语域：社会语言学和英语学习者测试中测量误差的估计
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2006
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Guillermo Solano
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作者：
Guillermo Solano
本文考察了心理语言学和社会语言学家在英语学习者测试中的交集，讨论了语言、方言和语域作为测量误差的来源。研究结果表明，学生所用语言的方言(例如，当地或标准英语)与语言一样重要，也是影响英语测试成绩可靠性的一个方面。试题的开发、本地化、复习和抽样是测试构建过程中的几个方面，对正确实现语言匹配至关重要：测试中使用的方言和语域特征之间的对应关系，以及在正式和教学语境中外语所接触的语言特征。
This article examines the intersection of psychornetrics and sociolinguists in the testing of English language learners (ELLs); it discusses language, dialect, and register as sources of measurement error. Research findings show that the dialect of the language in which students are tested (e.g., local or standard English) is as important as language as a facet that influences score dependability in ELL testing. The development, localization, review, and sampling of items are examined as aspects of the process of test construction critical to properly attaining linguistic alignment: the correspondence between the features of the dialect and the register used in a test, and the features of the language to which ELLs are exposed in both formal and instructional contexts.