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Pronunciation in English — Expanded Version is an interactive program that helps English-language learners with all elements of pronunciation, including stress, intonation and rhythm.

Research

Reliability of the Test of Spoken English Revisited
This publication describes technical characteristics of the TSE test, including such psychometric characteristics as level of difficulty, reliability, and validity.

Validating the Revised Test of Spoken English Against a Criterion of Communicative Success
A communicative competence orientation was adopted to study the validity of test score inferences derived from the revised Test of Spoken English (TSE). To implement the approach, a sample of undergraduate students primarily native speakers of English, provided a variety of reactions to, and judgments of, the test responses of a sample of TSE examinees.

Monitoring Sources of Variability Within the Test of Spoken English Assessment System
The purposes of this study were to examine four sources of variability within the Test of Spoken English (TSE) assessment system, to quantify ranges of variability for each source, to determine the extent to which these sources affect examinee performance, and to highlight aspects of the assessment system that might suggest a need for change.