The Relationship between Multiple Intelligences and Performance of EFL Students in Different Forms of Reading Comprehension Tests [PDF]
, 2016 The major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between Multiple Intelligences (MI) scores and the performance of Iranian EFL students on different forms of reading comprehension tests.
Moghaddam, Elham Mottaghi, Zahedi, Saeed
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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Vocabulary and reading comprehension : instructional effects [PDF]
, 1978 Bibliography: leaves 32-34Supported by the National Institute of ...
Jenkins, Joseph R. +2 more
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Investigating the construct measured by banked gap-fill items:evidence from eye-tracking [PDF]
, 2018 This study investigates test-takers’ processing while completing banked gap-fill tasks, designed to test reading proficiency, in order to test theoretically based expectations about the variation in cognitive processes of test-takers across levels of ...
Brunfaut, Tineke, McCray, Gareth
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Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Understanding speech in background music is a common real‐world challenge, particularly when vocals compete for linguistic processing resources. This study examined how the presence and intelligibility of sung lyrics influence semantic processing in autistic and nonautistic adults.
Jiayin Li +4 more
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Test Method Facet and the Construct Validity of Listening Comprehension Tests [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010 The assessment of listening abilities is one of the least understood, least developed and, yet, one of the most important areas of language testing and assessment.
Roya Khoii, Sara Paydarnia
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The effect of metacognitive strategy instruction on L2 learner beliefs and listening skills [PDF]
, 2016 This pilot study investigated the effect of semester-long strategy-based instruction on learner beliefs and skills in the processing of aural input by adult learners of English as a second language at metacognitive and procedural levels.
Harbaugh, Allen G. +2 more
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Literacy assessment practices: Moving from standardised to ecologically valid assessments in secondary schools [PDF]
, 2007 SSLI test protocol data revealed the dominance of 'central' literacy measures and 'local' subject-specific measures aligned to institutional requirements, curriculum and national examination content.
Whitehead, David
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Further Exploration of the Fluency Corpus of Academic English Lectures: The Profile of Repetitions
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2326-2341, December 2025.Abstract In assessment contexts, the domain definition inference requires accurate documentation of linguistic demands in a specific target domain for precise measurement. The present study examines several aspects of repetitions in academic lecture settings to offer the domain definition inference for academic listening tests.
Hitoshi Nishizawa
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From corpus-based collocation frequencies to readability measure [PDF]
, 2006 This paper provides a broad overview of three separate but related areas of research. Firstly, corpus linguistics is a growing discipline that applies analytical results from large language corpora to a wide variety of problems in linguistics and related
Anagnostou, N.K., Weir, G.R.S.
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