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Peer reviewedHale, Gordon A. – Language Testing, 1988
Analysis of TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores for 32,467 graduate school applicants, all nonnative speakers of English, revealed that students in the two key major-field groups, humanities/social sciences and biological/physical sciences, performed better on reading passages related to their own groups than on other passages.…
Descriptors: Content Validity, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
