abstract this study scrutinized the interaction between linguistic and strategic variables in reading comprehension test performance of iranian efl learners. to this end, the interaction among the participants’ reading comprehension test performance, use of test-taking strategies, and level of language proficiency was analyzed. the participants comprised 286 students who answered a reading comp...

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This paper compares three approaches for solving the problem of measurement error in a hierarchical gain score model. The pre-test and post-test scores are IRT scores with measurement error. Explanatory variables at student level and class level are considered in the model. Simulation results show that the gain score model that does not consider measurement error overestimates the explanatory v...

This paper proposed a method that can automatically detect syntax errors in Chinese sentences. The algorithm for identifying syntax errors proposed in this study is known as KNGED, which uses a large database of rules to identify whether syntax errors exist in a sentence. The rules were generated either manually or automatically. This paper further proposed an algorithm for identifying the type...