This study compares the language learner and test-taking strategies used by Chinesespeaking graduate students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar topics in an English multiple-choice format reading comprehension test. Thirty-six participants at a large mid-western university performed three tasks: A content knowledge vocabulary assessment, two practice reading comprehension passages...

GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

The overall aim of the work underlying this thesis was to improve the understanding of students’ testtaking motivation in connection to achievement tests for young adolescents. The thesis includes four studies and a summary. All four studies explore test-taking motivation and are all connected to validity in one way of another. The expectancy-value theory of achievement motivation was used as a...

the main concern of this study was communication strategies (css) which are used to compensate for communication breakdown. the goals of this study were to examine whether proficiency level of iranian students had any relationship with their choice of css. this research was descriptive in nature. the participants were 15 pre-intermediate and 14 intermediate efl learners between 16 to 21years ol...

this work supports the effectiveness of the employment of communication strategies for bet-ter and more efficient communication. communication strategies varies as a function of dif-ferent factors such as personality traits, pedagogical setting, l2 context, etc. the present re-search aimed at delving into the relationship between shyness, task nature and the frequency and type of communication ...

background and purpose: causal relationships between coping strategies, metacognitive beliefs and test anxiety, according to the self-regulatory executive function model of wells and matthews (1999) in college students was evaluated. material and methods: 638 students of tarbiat moallem university of tehran and agriculturalogy faculty were participated from aban to azar 2010 by quota sampling m...