This chapter reviews recent literature on English for specific purposes (ESP) testing,
beginning with work on the theory and practice of ESP assessment, and then deals with …

The present study investigates the use of English lexical collocations and their relation to the
online writing of Taiwanese college English majors and non-English majors. Data for the …

Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary
to understand and construct language tests. This intensely practical book gives guidelines …

Indices of lexical diversity have been used to estimate the size of a writer's vocabulary
and/or a writer's lexical proficiency for some time. One issue with many commonly used …

This article summarizes some of the main issues, concerns, and debates that have ensued
over the years in the field of L2 assessment and shows how past concerns have shaped …

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and
technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE). Highlights include the latest in the …

Abstract Automated Essay Scoring (AES) is a critical text regression task that automatically
assigns scores to essays based on their writing quality. Recently, the performance of …

Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices
related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language …

This study explores whether linguistic features can predict second language writing
proficiency in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT) integrated and …

In the rating scales of major international language tests, as well as in automated evaluation
systems (eg e-rater), a positive relationship is often claimed between lexical diversity …