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Download full textSeyedeh Azadeh Ghiasian; Fatemeh Hemmati; Seyyed Mohammad Alavi; Afsar Rouhi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
A critical component of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) is a Q-matrix that stipulates associations between items of a test and their required attributes. The present study aims to develop and empirically validate a Q-matrix for the listening comprehension section of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). To this end, a…
Descriptors: Test Items, Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Developing Interpreter Trainees' Speech Comprehensibility: Does Nativeness of the Instructor Matter?
Mahmood Yenkimaleki; Vincent J. van Heuven – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study examines the effect of native "vs." non-native prosody instruction on developing interpreter trainees' speech comprehensibility in English as a foreign language (EFL) using a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design. Twenty-three groups of 28 interpreter trainees at a University in Iran (six different branches) took part in…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
