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Student Major Field and Text Content: Interactive Effects on Reading Comprehension in the Test of English as a Foreign Language.

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Hale, Gordon A. – Language Testing, 1988

Analysis of TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores for 32,467 graduate school applicants, all nonnative speakers of English, revealed that students in the two key major-field groups, humanities/social sciences and biological/physical sciences, performed better on reading passages related to their own groups than on other passages.…

Descriptors: Content Validity, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Students, Graduate Students

A Comprehensive TOEFL Bibliography, 1963-82.

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Hale, Gordon A.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1984

Provides a bibliography of published research papers that either describe the history of the TOEFL, offer a critical review of the test, or interpret TOEFL research findings. Some topics include: the correlation of TOEFL with other standardized tests of English language proficiency, TOEFL's role as a predictor of academic performance, the…

Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups, Language Proficiency