Test Takers' Writing Activities During theTOEFL iBT®Writing Tasks: A Stimulated Recall Study

LOOKING INTO TEST-TAKERS’ COGNITIVE PROCESSES WHILE COMPLETING READING TASKS: A mixed-method eye-tracking and stimulated recall study

Task Type and Prompt Effect on Test Performance: A Focus on IELTS Academic Writing Tasks

Recent versions of international high-stakes tests like TOEFL and IELTS have made use of integrated tasks in addition to the traditional independent tasks in a claim to provide a more realistic estimation of the test takers’ language abilities. The present study aimed to investigate how test takers’ performance may differ on such tasks. As such, the test takers’ performance was compared on IELT...

Moderator of Expressive Writing Tasks : Test of a Matching Hypothesis

Title of Document: PERSONAL GROWTH INITIATIVE AS A MODERATOR OF EXPRESSIVE WRITING TASKS: TEST OF A MATCHING HYPOTHESIS Helena (Mimi) Martin, Master of Arts, 2009 Directed By: Dr. Robert W. Lent, Counseling and Personnel Services Department This study advances knowledge regarding a new potential client variable moderator to therapeutic writing. Therapeutic writing, also referred to in the liter...

task type and prompt effect on test performance: a focus on ielts academic writing tasks

recent versions of international high-stakes tests like toefl and ielts have made use of integrated tasks in addition to the traditional independent tasks in a claim to provide a more realistic estimation of the test takers’ language abilities. the present study aimed to investigate how test takers’ performance may differ on such tasks. as such, the test takers’ performance was compared on ielt...

Eye-tracking and Its Domain-specific Interpretation. a Stimulated Recall Study on Eye Movements in Geometrical Tasks