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Download full textSafa, Mohammad Ahmadi; Beheshti, Shima – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018
Drawing on sociocultural theory, this study explored the impact of interactionist and interventionist approaches to group dynamic assessment (GDA) on Iranian intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' listening comprehension development. To this end, 90 intermediate EFL learners were divided into two experimental and a control…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension
Learners' Attitudes toward Using Dynamic Assessment in Teaching and Assessing IELTS Writing Task One
Babamoradi, Parvin; Nasiri, Mahdi; Mohammadi, Elham – International Journal of Language Testing, 2018
Regarding the importance and complexity of writing among the EFL language learners, this study explored the learners' attitudes toward teaching and testing writing through Computerized Dynamic Assessment (CDA). The participants of this study were 22 Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners. All the participants were adults and participated in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Alternative Assessment, English (Second Language)
Tanabe, Masayuki – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
The present study addressed the role of speed as a factor in tests of second language (L2) vocabulary knowledge, presupposing that speed of performance is important in actual language use. Research questions were: (a) Do learners with a larger vocabulary size answer faster on an L2 vocabulary breadth test than smaller vocabulary sized learners?;…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Alternative Assessment
Amirian, Mohammad Reza; Davoudi, Mohammad; Ramazanian, Mohsen – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Dynamic Assessment (DA), is grounded in Vygotsky's idea on Sociocultural Theory (SCT) of mind, his concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and its related metaphor; scaffolding. This study examined the effects of dynamic assessment on improving reading comprehension of Iranian intermediate students who were learning English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Zarghami, Zahra – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
This article reports on a study that was carried out in order to examine the impact of conferencing assessment on students' learning of English grammar. Forty-two Iranian intermediate university students were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. The participants in the experimental group took part in four individual and four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Experimental Groups
Direct linkKoys, Daniel – Journal of Education for Business, 2010
The author found that the GPA at the end of the MBA program is most accurately predicted by the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). MBA GPA is also predicted, though less accurately, by the Scholastic Level Exam, a mathematics test, undergraduate GPA, and previous career progression. If…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Predictive Validity, Prediction, Foreign Countries
