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Download full textHale, Gordon A. – 1988
It was hypothesized that a student's major-field area interacts with the text content in determining performance on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) reading passages. Results with 32,467 graduate school applicants, all nonnative English speakers, supported the study's hypothesis, as students in two major-field groups, the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Students, English (Second Language), Graduate Study
