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Event‐related potentials elicited in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (controls), averaged across the F3, F4, Fz, C3, C4, and Cz electrodes. The upper panel displays the comparison between first‐ and second‐order complexity paradigms, averaging standard and deviant trials, with the baseline established previous ...
Francisco J. Ruiz‐Martínez +6 more
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Language Acquisition and English Achievement at Grade Four Senior High School [PDF]
This study aimed to explore the relationship between language acquisition and grade four senior high school (G4SHS) students’ achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL).
Mostafa Younesi +2 more
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An Instructional Application of the Multiple-Choice Cloze: A Case Study in the EFL Classroom
We explored using multiple-choice cloze (MCC) tests for classroom instruction. The practice of “testing leading teaching” is frequently criticized because it might distort the original teaching objectives. We do not primarily emphasize how to get high scores; instead, we show how to use testing techniques and teaching activities to provide feedback ...
Abby Deng-Huei Lee, Richard Jenn-Rong Wu
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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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Strategic Processing and Reading Comprehension: Contributions for the ESP Teaching
The objective of the study was to verify reading comprehension in English and strategic processing among 13 graduate students in health-related courses. Multiple-choice cloze test and reading protocols were used for data collection.
Fernanda Goulart Ritti Dias +1 more
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ABSTRACT Most research into the relationships of linguistic complexity and accuracy to functional adequacy has focused on either spoken or written mode. The current study extended previous studies by investigating these associations across both modalities and how the nature of these relationships was influenced by learners’ L2 proficiency and task type.
Xiaojun Lu, Yui Suzukida
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The Use of Cloze Test to Determine The Proficiency Level of ESL Students
A well-constructed language test will yield useful information for admission, student placement, course evaluation and other concerns in language teaching, depending on the test objectives. This paper describes the development of a viable test instrument
Jeanette Lim, Tunku Mohani Tunku Mohtar
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DIDACTIC APPROACHES TO PRECLINICAL E-TESTING FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS [PDF]
There are three specific and key unknowns to e-testing didactics (e-testing) that distinguish it from traditional test didactics and must be addressed in the preparation of electronic tests: (1) does it test the one it needs to test (security), (2) does ...
Ilina Doykova
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Vocabulary and reading comprehension : instructional effects [PDF]
Bibliography: leaves 32-34Supported by the National Institute of ...
Jenkins, Joseph R. +2 more
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MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND CLOZE TESTS: WHAT DO THEY REALLY MEASURE?
<p>The objective of this article is to show the results of a MA research carried out from july 1995 to august 1996. The aim was to find out what mental process(es) a testee goes through, while taking a multiple-choice and cloze test, in order to arrive at a correct answer.
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