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What has experience got to do with it? An exploration of L1 and L2 test takers’ perceptions of test performance and alignment to classroom literacy activities

What has experience got to do with it? An exploration of L1 and L2 test takers’ perceptions of test performance and alignment to classroom literacy activities
What has experience got to do with it? An exploration of L1 and L2 test takers’ perceptions of test performance and alignment to classroom literacy activities
The importance of first language (L1) and second language (L2) test takers’ experience with large-scale literacy testing has been well documented in educational research. Our study focused on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT), a crosscurricular literacy test that is one of the graduation requirements for Ontario high school students. We drew on qualitative data obtained from open-ended questions on a largescale survey administered to OSSLT test takers. Whether the test takers were preparing to take the test or had already taken the test seemed to play a critical role in L1 and L2 test takers’ perceptions. The most salient results highlight the role that test experience had on test takers’ perceptions of their test performance and the alignment between the test and their classroom literacy activities.
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Doe, Christine, Cheng, Liying, Fox, Janna, Klinger, Don and Zheng, Ying (2011) What has experience got to do with it? An exploration of L1 and L2 test takers’ perceptions of test performance and alignment to classroom literacy activities. Canadian Journal of Education, 34 (3), 68-85.

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The importance of first language (L1) and second language (L2) test takers’ experience with large-scale literacy testing has been well documented in educational research. Our study focused on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT), a crosscurricular literacy test that is one of the graduation requirements for Ontario high school students. We drew on qualitative data obtained from open-ended questions on a largescale survey administered to OSSLT test takers. Whether the test takers were preparing to take the test or had already taken the test seemed to play a critical role in L1 and L2 test takers’ perceptions. The most salient results highlight the role that test experience had on test takers’ perceptions of their test performance and the alignment between the test and their classroom literacy activities.

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Published date: 2011
Additional Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Organisations: Modern Languages

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Local EPrints ID: 357294
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/357294
ISSN: 0380-2361
PURE UUID: 0fa05135-4d70-4005-b6b9-00421a58072e
ORCID for Ying Zheng: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2574-0358

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Date deposited: 24 Sep 2013 09:05
Last modified: 09 Jan 2022 03:45

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Author: Christine Doe
Author: Liying Cheng
Author: Janna Fox
Author: Don Klinger
Author: Ying Zheng ORCID iD

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