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Papageorgiou, Spiros; Manna, Venessa F. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The TOEFL iBT test was introduced in 2005 to better reflect the language demands of real-life academic tasks than did previous versions of the test. The task-based design of the test was intended to support the interpretation of its scores as a trustworthy measure of international students' ability to use English in an academic environment. Until…
Descriptors: Academic Language, COVID-19, Pandemics, Scores
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Alavi, Seyyed Mohammad; Akbarian, Is'haaq – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
This study aims to examine a) whether vocabulary knowledge, captured in the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT), is related to the performance on the five types of reading comprehension items tested in TOEFL, i.e., Guessing Vocabulary, Main Idea, Inference, Reference, and Stated Detail; and b) whether EFL learners with different levels of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Test Items, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension