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RISFactors Underlying Characteristics of Effective English Language Teachers: Validity and Sample Effect
This study replicated another research project to find out what factors underlie the Characteristics of Effective English Language Teachers (CEELT) when a large and more representative and homogeneous sample is selected. ...
Construct Validity of C-tests:A Factorial Approach
This study explored the latent variables underlying C-Tests by analyzing the performance of 416
undergraduate and graduate university students majoring in English Language and Literature, ...
CONTEXTUAL VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE: THE BEST PREDICTOR OF NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY
Two hypotheses have been generated to capture the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension ability: instrumental and knowledge. While the former considers contextual vocabulary knowledge, i.e., ...
Schema-based Cloze Multiple Choice Item Tests: Measures of Reduced Redundancy and Language Proficiency
This article reports the performance of 34 non-native speakers on four testing methods developed on the basis of reduced redundancy testing, namely a C-Test, schema-based cloze multiple choice item test (MCIT), text-driven ...
Schema-based textual analysis of domain-controlled authentic texts
This paper reports a textual analysis of 22 authentic and unmodified newspaper and magazine articles dealing with a current political issue within the period of nine months. The analysis was based on schema theory, which ...
Objective-based achievement testing in the context of schema theory
This paper reports the performance of 38 non-native senior university students of English on two achievement tests: a traditional content-based multiple choice item test (MCIT) and a schema-based cloze MCITmeasuring course ...
C-Tests: Method Specific Measures of Language Proficiency
The present study reports the performance of 63 senior non-native undergraduate university students on C-Tests, a decontextualised C-Test, a spelling test, a matching vocabulary test (MVT) and a disclosed Test of English ...
Measuring Translation Ability and Achievement: A Schema-Based Approach
This study explores the validity and reliability of three measures of achievement: a schema-based cloze multiple choice item test (MCIT), a Persian to English MCIT and an English to Persian open-ended translation examination ...
The Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory: Factorial Validity, Formal Education and the Academic Achievement of Iranian Students Majoring in English
This paper explored the factorial validity of the Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) within a foreign language context and its relationship with educational level and academic achievement. The BALLI was ...
Authenticity and Sampling in C-Tests: A schema-Based and Statistical Response to Grotjahn’s Critique
The paper aims to respond to Grotjahn’s (2012a) critique of Khodadady and Hashemi’s (2011) paper “Validity and C-Tests: The Role of Text Authenticity” by employing reduced redundancy (RR) and schema theories. It counter ...