the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

the following question poped up: is there any relationship between iranian high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension? then the following null hypothesis (ho) was developed to the test the above, mentioned question. "there is no relationship between high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension. for nearly 16 weeks, the experimental g...

the present study investigated construct equivalence of multiple choice (mc) and constructed response (cr) item types across stem and content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘a’), non-stem-equivalent but content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘b’), and non-stem and non-content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘c’). one hundred seventy english-major undergraduates completed mc ...

‏‎in this research,the authors conducted a study comparing two groups of male and female english language learners studying in a elt institute,in terms of their performance on their achievement test including listening comprehension,vocabulary,grammar,and reading comprehension and found no significant difference between the group except in listening comprehension part of the test in which the f...

تحقیق حاضر گونه های مختلف c-test را بعنوان آزمونهایی برای سنجش توانایی عمومی زبانی مورد بررسی قرار داد. c-test در سال 1981 توسط کلین - بریلی و راتز به قلمرو آزمونسازی زیان وارد شد. در واقع c-test شکل تغییر یافته آزمون بسته (cloze) بود که با حذف نصف دوم کلمات یک متن بصورت یک در میان ساخته می شد و عمل حذف از کلمه دوم در جمله دوم شروع می شد. مطالعات مختلف نشان داده اند که آزمون c-test دارای پایایی...