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. ...

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, ...

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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...