In view of recent rapid expansion in size and quantity of many educational institutions in China, extensive and concentrated English examination has become a big problem faced by these institutions. The organization and management of English education examination have become difficult due to: i) the increasing learning level of English education, ii) the diversification of learning mode, and ii...

INTRODUCTION According to Crystal (2003), English is arguably the world's first ―global language,‖ a language that is used more commonly than any other language and one recognized with a powerful status in every country. English in South Korea of course is no exception. As a country where English is used as a foreign language, South Korea has become one of the largest consumers of English with ...

Category fluency tasks are an important component of neuropsychological assessment, especially when evaluating for dementia syndromes. The growth in the number of Spanish-speaking elderly in the United States has increased the need for appropriate neuropsychological measures and normative data for this population. This study provides norms for English and Spanish speakers, over the age of 50, o...

This article presents a review of cross-cultural influences on Wechsler IQ tests, together with a preliminary investigation into WAIS-III test performance (English administration) for a southern African sample (age range 19-30) stratified for white English first language and black African first language, level and quality of education. ('African language' is the term used to denote the indigeno...

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

This paper reports a research in progress of an academic effort to adopt TOEFL materials into English course for vocational education particularly at State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang. During the last five years, open source Learning Management Systems called Moodle has been used in the institution as a platform to deliver several science and engineering related courses in blended learning env...

UNLABELLED Evaluating the extent to which groups or subgroups of individuals differ with respect to primary healthcare experience depends on first ruling out the possibility of bias. OBJECTIVE To determine whether item or subscale performance differs systematically between French/English, high/low education subgroups and urban/rural residency. METHOD A sample of 645 adult users balanced by ...

the present study examined the effects of using english in products advertisements published in magazines in iran on their persian-speaking target audiences. 180 respondents, classified based on their gender and education, participated in this study. respondents’ perceptions of the product/brand image and attitudes towards the advertisements, their purchasing intention, and degrees of their com...