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Der C-Test: Aktuelle Tendenzen / The C-Test: Current Trends - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Der C-Test: Aktuelle Tendenzen / The C-Test: Current Trends - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstruieren sind. Sie haben hervorragende psychometrische Eigenschaften und werden in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten zur ökonomischen Messung von (allgemeiner) Sprachkompetenz eingesetzt. Dieser Band illustriert den aktuellen Stand der C-Test-Forschung. Der Fokus liegt auf Augenscheingültigkeit und Washback von C-Tests; C-Test-Leistung und Intelligenz; C-Tests als Screening-Instrumente für TestDaF und SIMTEST; ROC-Analysen zur Zuordnung von C-Test-Ergebnissen zu den Kompetenzstufen des GER; Verwendung von C-Tests im Unterricht. Eine Besonderheit des Bandes ist die umfassende C-Test-Bibliographie des Herausgebers. C-Tests consist of several short texts in which the missing parts of words have to be reconstructed. C-Tests have excellent psychometric properties and are used in many contexts as economical tests of language proficiency. This collection of papers illustrates the state of the art of C-Test research. It focuses on face validity and washback of C-Tests, C-Test performance and intelligence, C-Tests as screening devices for TestDaF and SIMTEST, ROC analyses for relating C-Test scores to the CEFR as well as use of C-tests in the classroom. A special feature of the volume is the editor’s comprehensive C-Test bibliography.

DKK 625.00
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Der C-Test - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Der C-Test - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen die zweite Hälfte jedes zweiten Wortes fehlt. Sie gelten in der Regel als objektives, reliables, valides und ökonomisches Instrument zur Messung allgemeiner Sprachkompetenz und werden mittlerweile in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten eingesetzt. Der vorliegende Sammelband illustriert den aktuellen Stand der (anwendungsbezogenen) C-Test-Forschung – mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der zentralen Frage der Konstruktvalidität. C-Tests consist of several short texts in which the second half of every second word has been deleted. As a rule, they are considered to be objective, reliable, valid and economical tests of general language proficiency. C-Tests are currently used in many contexts, including high-stakes applications. The present collection of papers illustrates the state of the art of (application-oriented) C-Test research, with a special focus on construct validity.

DKK 638.00
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The Co-construction of Conversation in Group Oral Tests - Fumyo Nakatsuhara - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Co-construction of Conversation in Group Oral Tests - Fumyo Nakatsuhara - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

International language tests increasingly use group oral formats in both high- and low-stakes contexts. But how do test-takers with different characteristics interact in such formats? This book explores how test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels co-construct spoken interaction in groups. The impact of the two test-taker characteristics was examined across three task types and with two group sizes. Examination of group performances using both statistical and Conversation Analysis tools offered insights into how group conversation is co-constructed. By enhancing our understanding of the group oral test construct, the findings have useful implications for international language test development and enable appropriate choices regarding task type and group size.

DKK 495.00
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Testing ESL Sociopragmatics - Catherine Elder - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Testing ESL Sociopragmatics - Catherine Elder - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for a broad coverage of the construct by assessing learners’ metapragmatic judgments as well as their ability to co-construct discourse. To ensure practicality, the test is delivered online and is scored partially automatically and partially by human raters. We used the argument-based approach to validation, which showed that the test can support low-stakes decisions about learners’ knowledge of sociopragmatics in English.

DKK 402.00
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Modelling Performance in Tests of Spoken Language - Barry O'sullivan - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Modelling Performance in Tests of Spoken Language - Barry O'sullivan - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

When we use a language we are always aware of our audience. This awareness is reflected, for example, in changes to the way we speak to the same person in different contexts or to different people in the same context. This book explores the way in which test takers’ language can change in test events depending on either real or perceived similarities or differences between themselves and their interlocutors. The series of five studies reported are designed to explore aspects of test-taker performance on tests of speaking, and in doing so provide evidence in support of a proposed model of speaking test performance. Though the studies focus primarily on the effect on test-taker performance of characteristics associated with their interlocutor, they also provide empirical evidence of interactions between the factors. There are clear implications from the findings for all of those people involved in language testing and in researching spoken language.

DKK 614.00
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Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language - Florian Meyer - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language - Florian Meyer - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? What inferences can be derived from HSK test taker scores, especially from Western test takers? How difficult is it to learn Chinese according to the HSK? Thirty years of research have been synthesized into an argument-based approach for validating the most widespread test for Chinese as a foreign language. In addition, the author has analyzed the scores of a sample of over 250 German test takers in order to investigate how many hours German natives needed on average to study for reaching a specific HSK level. This work also extensively discusses validation theory for psychological testing, and it demonstrates how to put an argument-based approach to validation into practice.

DKK 593.00
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Rounding of Income Data - Jens Ulrich Hanisch - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Rounding of Income Data - Jens Ulrich Hanisch - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Income questions are frequently answered with rounded values or income brackets. This has an impact on the quality of data, which is demonstrated for the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). A matching of register and interview data for the Finnish sub-sample of the ECHP allows an analysis of the measurement error caused by rounding with regard to cross-sectional statistics and the mobility of incomes. The emphasis is on income quantiles, poverty measures and income mobility. The finding is that most income values are rounded after one or two significant digits, and the accuracy improves only slightly after the initial wave. The results are that rounding behaviour can change across panel waves, and can also be different across countries and types of income. Characteristics like gender, job type and mode of interview were significantly correlated with rounding behaviour.

DKK 484.00
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Selected Topics in Applied Econometrics - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Selected Topics in Applied Econometrics - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book aims to bring together studies using different data types (panel data, cross-sectional data and time series data) and different methods (for example, panel regression, nonlinear time series, chaos approach, deep learning, machine learning techniques among others) and to create a source for those interested in these topics and methods by addressing some selected applied econometrics topics which have been developed in recent years. It creates a common meeting ground for scientists who give econometrics education in Turkey to study, and contribute to the delivery of the authors’ knowledge to the people who take interest. This book can also be useful for «Applied Economics and Econometrics» courses in postgraduate education as a material source

DKK 865.00
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Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance - Vivien Berry - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance - Vivien Berry - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Die Reihe "Language Testing and Evaluation" veröffentlicht theoretische The aim of the "Language Testing and Evaluation" series is to provide a und empirische Forschung zum Testen und Evaluieren im Bereich des Lehrens forum for publishing theoretical and empirical research in all areas of und Lernens von Sprachen. Die Absicht ist, einerseits zur Verbesserung der language teaching and learning. The series'' focus is on research on internationalen wissenschaftlichen Diskussion beizutragen sowie language tests and assessment tools as well as on programme evaluation andererseits Forschungsergebnisse und neue Entwicklungen sowohl den in der in which emphasis is placed on the characteristics of the instruments Praxis Tätigen als auch einem breiteren interessierten Publikum zugänglich themselves. Furthermore the intention of the series is to enhance the zu machen. possibilities for international scholarly debate among experts.

DKK 484.00
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Evaluating Tests of Second Language Development - Khaled Barkaoui - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Evaluating Tests of Second Language Development - Khaled Barkaoui - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book introduces a framework for examining the validity of tests that aim to assess second-language (L2) proficiency development over time and/or in relation to L2 instruction. It also reports the findings of a longitudinal study that aimed to examine the sensitivity to change of a test of L2 proficiency development. Specifically, the study examined changes over time in Progress scores and the linguistic characteristics of essays written in response to Progress by learners who took the test before, during and after a period of L2 instruction in different countries. The book furthers our understanding of the nature of L2 proficiency as it develops over time and in relation to L2 instruction and provides a framework that can be used in future endeavours to design and validate tests of L2 proficiency development. The book is intended for graduate students, test developers, and researchers doing research in applied linguistics and L2 assessment.

DKK 482.00
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Validating Language Proficiency Assessments in Second Language Acquisition Research - Anastasia Drackert - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Validating Language Proficiency Assessments in Second Language Acquisition Research - Anastasia Drackert - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book introduces the reader to an argument-based approach to validity as a way to improve test validation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. Motivated by the need for practical suggestions for raising proficiency assessment standards in SLA research, it exemplifies the approach by validating two distinct score interpretations for a new Russian Elicited Imitation Test (EIT). Two empirical investigations with 164 Russian learners in the USA and Germany were conducted to evaluate the accuracy of the score interpretations associated with two distinct test uses. The EIT proved to constitute a reliable and valid instrument for differentiating between a wide range of oracy skills. The proposed cut scores enabled prediction of several levels of speaking and listening proficiency. The author concludes with implications for using the argument-based approach for validating assessments in SLA research, for the use of the developed Russian EIT, and for future research on Elicited Imitation Tests in general.

DKK 508.00
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Impact of Technological Innovation on the Poor - Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Impact of Technological Innovation on the Poor - Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The author examines the dynamics of participation in and welfare impact of integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) value chain by using three-year panel data from indigenous households in the northern and north-western regions of Bangladesh. By different panel estimation methods he analyses the IAA value chain participation dynamics and indicates that education and household size, access to extensions and market information, community-based organisations (CBO) membership are positively associated with participation and continuing participation in IAA value chain activities. Welfare impact results indicate that IAA value chain participation is positively correlated to household income and consumption frequency of some goods, particularly fish. Assessment of the comparative socio-environmental impacts of rice monoculture and rice-fish based IAA practices suggests that rice-fish based IAA is a sustainable alternative to rice monoculture.

DKK 508.00
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Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott: Advanced Methods in Language Testing - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott: Advanced Methods in Language Testing - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This Festschrift has been compiled to honour Günther Sigott for his notable contributions to academia in general and to the field of language testing in particular. The contributors to this volume come from all over the world, spanning regions from Austria and its neighbouring countries Slovenia and Germany, to the UK, USA, all the way to Japan and Iran. They work as test developers, teacher educators, psychometricians and researchers, taking up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized tests, the acknowledgement of language varieties in high-stakes exams, fostering language assessment literacy or psychometric models to enhance C-test interpretations or scoring validity

DKK 430.00
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Refusal to License- Intellectual Property Rights as Abuse of Dominance - Claudia Schmidt - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Refusal to License- Intellectual Property Rights as Abuse of Dominance - Claudia Schmidt - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Refusal to license intellectual property rights (IPRs) are an ongoing topic within the enforcement of Article 102 TFEU (ex Article 82 EC). Nevertheless, so far an economic founded instrument to analyse these cases is missing. To close this gap, the Innovation Effects and Appropriability Test will be developed throughout this book. Innovation research has been showing that firms rely on more appropriation mechanisms than only IPRs. The availability of these alternative instruments depends on the involved technologies, the kind of innovation, the concerned industry and so on. Consequently, it is in the centre of the Innovation Effects and Appropriability Test to analyse whether the dominant firm could rely on other appropriation instruments to protect its innovation and to recoup its investments in R&D.

DKK 473.00
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The Change toward Cooperation in the George W. Bush Administration’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy toward North Korea - Jonas Schneider - Bog -

The Change toward Cooperation in the George W. Bush Administration’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy toward North Korea - Jonas Schneider - Bog -

This book offers a case study in foreign policy change: It examines why the Bush administration suddenly redirected its nuclear nonproliferation policy toward North Korea in the aftermath of North Korea’s first nuclear test in October 2006, abandoning its former confrontational approach in favor of a more accommodating line. Existing explanations of this course reversal draw on the security implications of a growing crisis on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. domestic politics, and changing decision-making dynamics within the Bush administration. Employing before-after comparison, the study refutes these accounts – and it offers an alternative explanation: The Bush administration altered its nonproliferation policy toward North Korea toward a cooperative course because after the nuclear test, it perceived fundamentally improved prospects for fruitful cooperation on North Korea’s denuclearization.

DKK 440.00
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Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews - Annie Brown - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews - Annie Brown - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book was the winner of the 2005 Jacqueline A. Ross Dissertation Award for second or foreign language testing. The assessment of speaking skills is an important part of the language learning process, whether carried out by teachers in the classroom or through proficiency tests administered by testing agencies. However, the complex and subjective nature of speaking assessment raises a number of important questions about the validity, reliability and fairness of test procedures. This book, which is based on research into the speaking test of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), shows how the performance of learners in oral proficiency interviews cannot be taken unequivocally as an indication of their ability, as variation in interviewer behaviour can have an impact both on learner performance and on ratings outcomes.

DKK 635.00
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Further Training for Older Workers: A Solution for an Ageing Labour Force? - Hila Zboralski Avidan - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Further Training for Older Workers: A Solution for an Ageing Labour Force? - Hila Zboralski Avidan - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Due to changes in retirement and employment policies the participation of older workers in the German labour force has been increasing in the recent decade. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the book examines developments in the training participation patterns of older workers. The author gives special attention to the relations between the rate of training participation and the level of job satisfaction. The findings indicate an increase in training participation, particularly of workers aged 55–59, and imply a positive correlation between the rate of training and job satisfaction.

DKK 487.00
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Prosody and Conceptional Variation - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Prosody and Conceptional Variation - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Prosody is strongly influenced by situational variation along conceptional parameters, such as the degree of communicative collaboration, the degree of dialogicity, the degree of planning, or the degree of familiarity between partners. Prosodic research, however, still focuses more on decontextualized "prosodic grammars" than on prosodic variation itself. This book, which gathers contributions from the "Prosody and conceptional variation" panel at the Deutscher Romanistentag held in 2017 in Zürich, tackles methodological and theoretical issues of this interplay. Based on empirical analysis of a wide range of communicative situations, the book shows how phonetic, pragmatic, textual, and interactional perspectives can help to better understand how prosodic features and communicative settings are interrelated.

DKK 407.00
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Interaction in Paired Oral Proficiency Assessment in Spanish - Ana Maria Ducasse - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Interaction in Paired Oral Proficiency Assessment in Spanish - Ana Maria Ducasse - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Defining the construct of interaction for paired assessment purposes has been difficult, despite the evolution of our view of language to include the social perspective of co-construction, and the fact that such discourse is increasingly taught and assessed. In this volume three sequenced studies define interaction in paired oral assessment through the verbal protocols of learners of Spanish and their assessors. Assessors then scale performances from videoed test performance data resulting in the development of an evidence based rating process which includes non-verbal interpersonal communication, interactive listening and interactional management.

DKK 516.00
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Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance - Katinka Woelfer - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance - Katinka Woelfer - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book sheds new light on the relation between equity ownership and corporate performance. Empirical studies presented in this book are based on a large panel data set and model the impact of concentrated ownership on performance, with nonlinear effect shapes being estimated through cubic splines. The final model incorporates the identity of owners into the investigation and illustrates the differing performance effects of various large shareholders. This approach adds to the understanding of ownership effects as previous research was mainly concerned with the role of ownership concentration and neglected the identity of blockholders as an equally important dimension of ownership. The new perspective will give fresh impetus to researchers, corporate decision makers and public policy.

DKK 625.00
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Computational Text Analysis and Reading Comprehension Exam Complexity - Trisevgeni Liontou - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Computational Text Analysis and Reading Comprehension Exam Complexity - Trisevgeni Liontou - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book delineates a range of linguistic features that characterise the reading texts used at the B2 (Independent User) and C1 (Proficient User) levels of the Greek State Certificate of English Language Proficiency exams in order to help define text difficulty per level of competence. In addition, it examines whether specific reader variables influence test takers’ perceptions of reading comprehension difficulty. The end product is a Text Classification Profile per level of competence and a formula for automatically estimating text difficulty and assigning levels to texts consistently and reliably in accordance with the purposes of the exam and its candidature-specific characteristics.

DKK 572.00
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Social perspectives on language testing - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Social perspectives on language testing - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Tim McNamara’s work has had a fundamental impact on language testing. This volume brings together over 20 leading scholars in language assessment whose work has been influenced by Tim McNamara. Their papers cover issues of the social impact of language tests, such as fairness and justice of test use and language testing in the context of migration. They also address testing of interaction, and teachers’ and students’ views of language tests. The volume concludes with papers discussing the future of language testing in the face of contested concepts of validity, the rise of social media, and lingua franca language use.

DKK 508.00
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New Insights into Slavic Linguistics - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

New Insights into Slavic Linguistics - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume presents a number of contributions to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society held in Szczecin, Poland, October 26–28. The largest number of articles address issues related to the (morpho)syntactic level of language structure, and several papers describe results of recent research into different aspects of Slavic linguistics as well. The current volume proves conclusively that Slavic linguists make a remarkable contribution to the development of various theoretical frameworks by analysing linguistic evidence from richly inflected languages, which allows them to test and modify contemporary theories and approaches based on other types of data.

DKK 688.00
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The Influence of Family Blockholders on the Financial Behavior of Listed Family Firms - Fabio Franzoi - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Influence of Family Blockholders on the Financial Behavior of Listed Family Firms - Fabio Franzoi - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This dissertation investigates the influence of large family shareholders on financial decisions and the performance of listed firms in Germany. This country is especially interesting, as the German corporate governance system is considered less investor- friendly with a limited influence of shareholders on managerial decisions. Based on the incentive structure of family blockholders and their influence in corporate boards, the four studies offer a novel approach to analyzing the financial behavior of family firms. They use a hand-collected panel dataset identifying blockholders and every board position in 278 corporations. The dissertation demonstrates that the degree of family involvement in boards significantly influences working capital and earnings management as well as stock market performance and provides contributions for academia and practitioners alike.

DKK 339.00
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Bank Capital Structure and Procyclicality of Leverage - Ciydem Catak - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Bank Capital Structure and Procyclicality of Leverage - Ciydem Catak - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book investigates the determinants of bank capital structure and procyclical behavior of leverage. A panel data analysis is developed to find out the relation between different types of leverage ratios and asset growth of banks. Furthermore, possible impacts of bank specific and macroeconomic variables on the bank capital structure are discussed. The book concludes that the leverage of Turkish banks is procyclical, which is the outcome of a positive relation between asset growth and leverage. The procyclical leverage could contribute to higher instability in the financial sector and the overall economy. Therefore, further regulations are assumed to be necessary. Size, profit, number of banks, inflation, exchange rate, and gross domestic product are the factors that affect Turkish banks’ capital structure.

DKK 330.00
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