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Peer reviewedYarmohammadi, Lotfollah – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
A language-specific test-item is one which includes a distractor which is a predictable mistake made by Persian speakers, and determined by syntactic and lexical contrastive analysis of Persian and English. The term 'universal' is used for a test-item which does not contain contrastive distractors as defined here. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Tests
