Educational Testing Service

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Educational Testing Service*

Titles

Task-Based Approaches to Teaching Additional Languages in Primary School

AuthorVeronika Timpe-Laughlin & Yuko Goto Butler

Subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 19] 2026. | monograph

Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis

AuthorShoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka & John M. Norris

Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 18] 2025. | monograph

Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation

Edited by Spiros Papageorgiou & Venessa F. Manna

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] 2023. | edited volume

Flor, Michael, Steven Holtzman, Paul Deane & Isaac Bejar 2024 Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels

Keywords: vocabulary | grade levels | graded resources | lexical progression | word difficulty

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 175:1 pp. 25–45 | article

Timpe-Laughlin, Veronika, Lorraine Sova & Michelle Kim 2024 “I want children to see that their languages are respected”: Perspectives on world language learning from pre-primary teachers in the United States

Keywords: world language learning | preschool teachers | linguistic and cultural diversity | pre-primary education

Language Teaching for Young Learners 6:2 pp. 149–172 | article

Monfils, Lora & Venessa F. Manna 2023 Considerations in developing vertical scales for language tests

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] pp. 14–34

Papageorgiou, Spiros, Mitchell J. Ginsburgh & Pablo Garcia Gomez 2023 Assessment design issues in developing vertical scales for language tests

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] pp. 35–60

Gu, Lixiong, Yanmei Li, Lora Monfils & Spiros Papageorgiou 2023 Statistical methodology for developing vertical scales for language tests

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] pp. 61–77

Wang, Lin & Spiros Papageorgiou 2023 Scale anchoring methodology for developing revised performance level descriptors for the TOEFL iBT® test

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] pp. 80–98

Schmidgall, Jonathan 2023 Exploring the benefits and challenges of web-based approaches to standard setting

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] p. 99

Davis, Larry, Pablo Garcia Gomez, Shuhong Li & Venessa F. Manna 2023 Mapping TOEFL® Essentials™ speaking and writing scores to the CEFR levels

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] pp. 120–140

Li, Tongyun & Spiros Papageorgiou 2023 Designing and executing a score concordance study to establish score mapping to proficiency levels

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] pp. 141–155

Beigman Klebanov, Beata 2023 Narrative writing from users-in-the-wild: A computational rhetorical analysis

Keywords: narrative | genre analysis | feedback | writing support | distances between genres | Kullback-Leibler divergence | automated feedback | automated writing support | Writing Mentor

In: Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope, Brown, David West & Danielle Zawodny Wetzel (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] pp. 79–92

Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna 2023 Overview of research to enhance score interpretation

In: Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation, Papageorgiou, Spiros & Venessa F. Manna (eds.) [Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] pp. 1–11

Sasayama, Shoko & John M. Norris 2023 Designing speaking tasks for different assessment goals: The complex relationship between cognitive task complexity, language performance, and task accomplishment

Keywords: assessment task design | CALF measures | cognitive task complexity | discrimination | task accomplishment

TASK 2:2 pp. 184–217 | article

Norris, John M. 2021 The Long road to TBLT: 40 years of innovation, investigation, and inspiration

Keywords: Task-based language teaching (TBLT) | second language acquisition (SLA) | needs analysis | language pedagogy | language testing | program evaluation | language education innovation

TASK 1:2 pp. 162–183 | article

Lopez, Alexis A., Danielle Guzman-Orth & Sultan Turkan 2019 Exploring the use of translanguaging to measure the mathematics knowledge of emergent bilingual students

Keywords: emergent bilinguals | dual language supports | flexible bilingual assessment | translanguaging | mathematics assessment

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:2 pp. 143–164 | article

Timpe-Laughlin, Veronika 2018 Pragmatics in task-based language assessment: Opportunities and challenges

In: Task-based approaches to teaching and assessing pragmatics, Taguchi, Naoko & YouJin Kim (eds.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 10] pp. 288–304

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.