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Massachusetts/Rhode Island League for Nursing (MARLIN) Fall Conference
Increasing EAL (English as an Additional Language) Nursing Students' Comprehension of Multiple-Choice Test Items through Linguistic Modification
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Massachusetts/Rhode Island League for Nursing (MARLIN) Fall Conference
Purpose:
Provide nurse educators with skills to revise multiple-choice test items to be more culturally inclusive.
Objectives:
- Explain the basic principles of linguistic modification.
- Recognize the importance of linguistic modification as a means of leveling the playing field in multiple choice nursing assessments for EAL students.
- Identify unnecessary linguistic and semantic complexity in multiple-choice test items.
- Reword test items to reduce linguistic and semantic complexity without affecting the nursing content of the items.
- Verify the process of acquiring proficiency in written academic English as well as acquiring proficiency in discipline-specific writing.
- Describe what kind of feedback is most helpful and effective for EAL writers.
- Demonstrate giving effective feedback on papers written by EAL nursing students.
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