a proficiency test is one of the language tests with the goal of assessing/evaluating the language learners' achievement. this test does not deal with language teaching and learning methods. in fact, in a proficiency test, we concentrate on determining the level of the testee’s ability in applying language at the time of administrating the test and for the test taker, it is not important t...

The vast majority of ‘Gen Z’ are in the positive light about future technology education. Due to Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a shift teaching, learning and assessing methods. To keep abreast with current technology, computer-based language test (CBLT) was used as one methods assess students’ proficiency during shift. For this study, CBLT adopted conducted among students who were taking an...

This research was designed to compare the impact of culturally laden Task-based language Teaching (TBLT) and Content-based language Teaching (CBLT) on Iranian intermediate learners' Speaking improvement. Two groups of participants, i. e. the experimental and control groups, were used in this study. In the experimental group, task-based instruction for 20 intermediate students and in the control...

Traceability information can be crucial for software maintenance, testing, automatic program repair, and various other engineering tasks. Customarily, a vast amount of test code is created systems to maintain improve quality. Today's may contain tens thousands tests. Finding the parts tested by each case usually difficult time-consuming task without help authors tests or at least clear naming c...

background: finding the right word is a necessity in communication, and its evaluation has always been a challenging clinical issue, suggesting the need for valid and reliable measurements. the homophone meaning generation test (hmgt) can measure the ability to switch between verbal concepts, which is required in word retrieval. the purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the persian ve...

Deployment of model-based testing involves many difficulties that have slowed down its industrial adoption. The leap from traditional scripted testing to model-based testing seems as hard as moving from manual to automatic test execution. Two key factors in the deployment are the language used to define the test models, and the language used for defining the test objectives. Based on our experi...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of intensive interval training on the nature of red blood corpuscles count and cardiovascular endurance. Interval training stresses not only the energy system but the muscular system also. To fulfil the objectives of the study, fifty students from the Department of Physical Education, Lovely Professional University, Punjab were sele...

critical language assessment (cla) argues that language testing is a form of social practice and an agent of cultural, social, educational as well as ideological agendas. as such this article scrutinized the power that different groups of people including, teachers, students and their parents own at the levels of developing, administrating and interpreting iranian university entrance examinatio...