Yuan Wang

TL;DR: The authors of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as discussed by the authors report on an investigation of teacher interpretations of the CCSS and their perceptions of the challenges they face in implementing the standards with ELL students.

TL;DR: This paper explored the characteristics of ESL programs for matriculated students, with the purposes of drawing a clearer picture of such programs and preparing for a further exploration of validity issues that arise when using standardized English proficiency tests such as the TOEFL® test to assist with ESL placement decisions.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the developmental writing patterns of English as a foreign language (EFL) students across different score levels through a TOEFL Junior® writing task, and found that the developmental learning patterns of EFL students are similar to those of adults.

TL;DR: The TOEFL Junior® Standard Test as mentioned in this paper is an assessment that measures the degree to which middle school-aged students learning English as a second language have attained proficiency in the academic and social English skills representative of English-medium instructional environments.

TL;DR: The TOEFL Junior® Standard Test as mentioned in this paper is an assessment that measures the degree to which middle school-aged students learning English as a second language have attained proficiency in the academic and social English skills representative of English-medium instructional environments.