Why bother with testing? The validity of immigrants’ self-assessed language proficiency

Factors Impacting Recognition of False Collocations by Speakers of English as L1 and L2

“…Unlike the research by Edele, Seuring, Kristen, and Stanat (2015) that demonstrated significant biases in the participants' self-assessment, the find ing of this study suggests that ESL learners might be capable of adequate self-assessment of their language proficiency, which corresponds to the level of their collocation competence, and therefore, as Guduru (2014) argues, de veloping their selfassessment skills might improve their vocabulary learning skills.…”

“…In addi tion, although some studies (Lewis, 2000;McCarthy & O'Dell, 2005) claimed that reading/listening and comprehending words in chunks might contribute to a more effective collocation recognition, neither of the cognitive processing strategies-such as attention span (reading the text word-by-word, in word combinations, or whole sentences) or reading fluency in general, which was addressed in Sonbul's (2015) study-seemed important in terms of the test scores for the two groups of participants. This might partly be due to the mea surement format of the selfreport and selfassessment survey that, according to Sitzmann, Ely, Brown, and Bauer (2010) and Edele et al (2015), might not be effective when measuring cognitive processes. Nevertheless, speakers of English as L1 and speakers of English as L2 with higher test scores did ex hibit certain similarities in the way they approached the reading task as most participants preferred to read the text in chunks rather than wordbyword.…”

Long-Term Effects of Language Course Timing on Language Acquisition and Social Contacts: Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants in Western Europe

“…Recently, Edele et al. () noted that the quality of linguistic self‐assessments might be higher for task‐related self‐assessments of everyday situations than for full psychometric tests. The self‐assessment used by the SCIICS survey is task‐related and focused on everyday life; respondents were asked to assess how often they encounter problems when having a conversation in the host country language on a five‐point scale from “never” (0) to “always” (4) (see Table ).…”

Multilingualism and European Identification

“…Until now, this has been the main source of comparative data on ML across Europe (e.g., De Swaan ; Gerhards ), although self‐reports of ML are often inaccurate and include systematic bias (Edele et al. ). I use the total number of languages that respondents speak as the main independent variable.…”