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Aryadoust, Vahid; Zhang, Limei – Language Testing, 2016
The present study used the mixed Rasch model (MRM) to identify subgroups of readers within a sample of students taking an EFL reading comprehension test. Six hundred and two (602) Chinese college students took a reading test and a lexico-grammatical knowledge test and completed a Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use Questionnaire (MCSUQ)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Item Response Theory, Reading Comprehension
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Yu, Guoxing – Language Testing, 2008
The cognitive demands of summary writing are dependent upon the type of summary to be produced. This paper reports part of a larger study in which 157 Chinese undergraduates were asked to write summaries of extended English texts in both English and Chinese. It examines the differential effects of the use of the two languages on summarization as a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Tests, Reading Skills, English (Second Language)