In higher education in Taiwan, mandatory general English courses like Freshman adopt ability-grouping practices to assign students classes of different proficiency levels. However, little research has explored the efficacy criteria and standardized language-proficiency description for Thus, this study recruited 806 Taiwanese undergraduates from advanced, intermediate, basic levels take Oxford O...

Background: Cooperative learning as an educational approach plays a crucial role in English as a second/foreign language education. The effective role of cooperative learning seems to be so dominant that it deserves further investigation. Objectives: This study aimed at investigating the impact of cooperative learning strategies on reading comprehension and vocabulary learning of nursing stude...

Considering the significance of corrective feedback to improve language learners’ speaking performance, current study aimed examine impact direct oral on accuracy and motivation speak Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 46 learners who were preparing themselves for IELTS exam, both male female, invited participate in study. Having homogenized participants through Oxford Placement Test, researche...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of English as foreign language proficiency onlexical attrition of Iranian learners in Nouroz holidays. For this purpose, 90 students studiedEnglish translation at Qazvin Azad University were selected. They were sophomore and wereaccessible for the present study. After administering a proficiency test (OPT), 60 students wereselected according to the ...

The present study investigates the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving English abstract vocabulary recall. To achieve this, a multiple-choice Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered as the proficiency test to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students aged 18 to 22, studying English Translation in ...

to be able to reach the level of ultimate attainment in the second language, learners need to acquire not only the grammar of the l2 but also the language processing mechanisms involved in the comprehension of sentences in real time. contrary to its importance, very little is known yet about online l2 processing. this study examines whether advanced iranian learners of english reactivate disloc...

Despite arriving with the required language qualifications, many international students struggle linguistic demands of a university degree. Using International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as an example, this study explored how short but intensive preparation programmes may affect high-stakes English-proficiency test scores which apply for places. The participants were 89 Chinese spe...

This study aimed to explore the effect of rote learning (word list learning) on boosting visual and auditory learners' vocabulary retention. To this end, the Oxford Placement Test (2007) was administered, in order to identify the learners' proficiency level. Then 31 subjects who were studying at the Iran Language Institute (ILI) in Bushehr, Iran, and belonged to available sampling were singled ...

This study was conducted to probe the effect of the observer ring technique on the participants’ writing achievement. In so doing, the researchers utilized a quasi-experimental design with 20 participants in the control group and 18 in the experimental group. Instrumentation included a writing handout, an Oxford Placement Test (standard proficiency test), and a rating scale of writing. As a tre...