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The Passage Is Too Brief for Comprehension: On the Construct Validity of the English Reading Section in the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test
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Taehyeong Kim; Byungmin Lee – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
The Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) aims to assess Korean high school students' scholastic ability required for college readiness. As a high-stakes test, the examination serves as a pivotal hurdle for university admission and exerts a strong washback effect on the educational system in Korea. The present study set out to investigate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
The Effect of Corpus-Assisted Language Teaching on Academic Collocation Acquisition by Iranian Advanced EFL Learners
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Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani; Saeed Ketabi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and conventional deductive teaching approach (i.e., multiple-choice items, filling the gap, matching and underlining) on learning academic collocations by Iranian…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, English (Second Language)
The Effect of Cultural Integration on the Development of Listening Comprehension among Iranian Upper-Intermediate EFL Learners
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Fatemi, Mohammad Ali; Montazerinia, Fatemeh; Shirazian, Sharifeh; Atarodi, Maliheh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Cultural integration can be used as an effective learning practice in contexts of English as Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of cultural integration on the development of Iranian EFL upper-intermediate learners' listening comprehension. To this end, fifty-two upper-intermediate EFL learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Integration, Acculturation, Listening Comprehension
Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Content Familiarity on Literal and Inferential Comprehension in L2 Reading
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Alptekin, Cem; Ercetin, Gulcan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
This study examines the effects of working memory capacity and content familiarity on literal and inferential comprehension in second language (L2) reading. Participants were 62 Turkish university students with an advanced English proficiency level. Working memory capacity was measured through a computerized version of a reading span test, whereas…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning
Conversational Cloze Tests for Advanced Learners.
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Lennon, Paul – ELT Journal, 1989
Analysis of advanced English-as-a-second-language students' responses to proficiency tests and conversational cloze tests after a six-month residency in England revealed that, while written multiple-choice tests clearly showed linguistic improvement, the oral cloze tests separated out subjects more effectively. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
The Effect of Explicit Metapragmatic Instruction on the Speech Act Awareness of Advanced EFL Students
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Eslami-Rasekh, Zohreh; Eslami-Rasekh, Abbas; Fatahi, Azizollah – TESL-EJ, 2004
This study deals with the application of the pragmatics research to EFL teaching. The study explored the effect of explicit metapragmatic instruction on the speech act comprehension of advanced EFL students. The speech acts of requesting, apologizing, and complaining were selected as the focus of teaching. Teacher-fronted discussions, cooperative…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multiple Choice Tests