Sage Language & Linguistics

Sarah Maso and Elise Baker discuss their article about how children with phonological impairment respond to requests for clarification containing polysyllables. Posted November 2014

Fred Davidson and Cary Lin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discuss the role of statistics. Posted October 2014

Silke Fricke interviews Blanca Schaefer and Indra Sinka about their article on the development of the New Reynell Developmental Language Scales and of a Multilingual Toolkit for use with children from linguistic and cultural backgrounds other than English, published in Volume 30 Issue 1 of Child Language Teaching and Therapy. Posted July 2014.

Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder from the University of Amsterdam discuss rater variability in the assessment of speaking and writing in a second language.

In this podcast Ryo Nitta and Fumiyo Nakatsuhara discuss whether providing pre-task planning time impacts upon the scores and talk of test takers in a paired-format speaking test. Posted May 2014.

Jodi Tommerdahl and Cynthia Kilpatrick discuss their paper on the reliability of morphological analyses in language samples.

James Law interviews Nick Riches about his research on treating the passive in children with specific language impairments.

Stephen Bax talks about his paper on eye-tracking and what it can tell us about how successful readers go about processing items and texts in reading tests.

Ofra Inbar, guest editor, talks about the special issue and the growing importance of assessment literacy in language testing.

Paula Winke and Susan Gass talk about rater bias in the assessment of speaking.