Perspectives: Revisiting English Entrance Examinations at Japanese Universities after a Decade

Genre analysis of writing tasks in Japanese university entrance examinations

Background: English language writing is important in university entrance examinations in Japan and influences what learners and teachers do in English classes. This is especially noticeable in secondary education in Japan. While much research on university entrance examinations in Japan has been conducted, little attention has been paid to the types of writing required in these examinations. Me...

Mekh-mat Entrance Examinations Problems

a comparative analysis of reading comprehension tests of iranian universities’ entrance examinations (uee)

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Revisiting f0 range production in Japanese-English simultaneous bilinguals

This study reports an experiment in which 10 Japanese-American English simultaneous bilinguals (5 males, 5 females; all undergrads at the University of California, Berkeley) were recorded performing comparable reading tasks in their two languages. The study builds on a relatively new approach to measuring f0 range proposed by Patterson 2000 and operationalised in Mennen et al. 2012 that compute...

An Evaluation of Language Subtests of the Entrance Examinations at the Ph.D. Level