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Razeghizade, Tayebe; Nourmohammadi, Esmaeel; Izadi, Mehri – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
Critical thinking, intelligence, and language aptitude are three cognitive factors, each, in its own way, influencing our lives. They are important in successful reasoning, problem-solving, and foreign language learning, and thus are worth studying regarding their influence on individuals' language-related skills, in particular, foreign…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Undergraduate Students, Universities
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Aghajani, Mojtaba; Gholamrezapour, Emad – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Critical thinking is crucial to the learning process, cognitive development, and effective information seeking. People can use critical thinking skills to understand, interpret, and assess what they hear or read in order to formulate appropriate reactions or responses. The present study intends to investigate the predictive power of critical…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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LaFlair, Geoffrey T.; Staples, Shelley – Language Testing, 2017
Investigations of the validity of a number of high-stakes language assessments are conducted using an argument-based approach, which requires evidence for inferences that are critical to score interpretation (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008b; Kane, 2013). The current study investigates the extrapolation inference for a high-stakes test of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences