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Download full textArefsadr, Sajjad; Babaii, Esmat – TESL-EJ, 2023
According to the IELTS official website, IELTS candidates usually score lower in the IELTS Writing test than in the other language skills. This is disappointing for the many IELTS candidates who fail to get the overall band score they need. Surprisingly enough, few studies have addressed this issue. The present study, then, is aimed at shedding…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Direct linkNhu Huynh Le; Hung Tan Ha – SAGE Open, 2023
The article presents a lexical study that investigates the lexical demands of academic written texts at different levels of writing. By employing the British National Corpus/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) word list and the Academic Word List (AWL), the present study analyzed data from the British Academic Written English…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), North American English, Word Lists
Luo, Xiaobo – English Language Teaching, 2022
From the perspective of complexity theory and based on Robinson's Cognition Hypothesis and the Triadic Componential Framework, this paper investigated the effect of manipulating task complexity along resource-dispersing dimension on L2 written performance. The results showed that: 1) Significant interactive effects were found between the two…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Alonazi, Zaha – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Achieving sufficient proficiency in academic writing is critical in university level setting. It is not surprising hence, that the admission to English speaking universities is usually conditioned not only by a particular total score from Standardized tests of English proficiency, e.g., TOEFL or IELTs but also a specific band score in writing. To…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Placement Tests, Language Tests, College Admission
