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Direct linkQing Xie – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
This study reports an investigative study with 55 English-major participants in a Chinese university about using simulation in business English correspondence teaching. The study found that participants had strong needs in practical skills development and learning business English correspondence writing. The simulation approach was perceived to be…
Descriptors: Business Education, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students
Download full textPelánek, Radek; Effenberger, Tomáš; Kukucka, Adam – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2022
We study the automatic identification of educational items worthy of content authors' attention. Based on the results of such analysis, content authors can revise and improve the content of learning environments. We provide an overview of item properties relevant to this task, including difficulty and complexity measures, item discrimination, and…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Identification, Difficulty Level, Case Studies
Gao, Cun – English Language Teaching, 2016
Cultivating EFL learners' critical thinking ability is an urgent task for English teachers. To integrate the training of language skills and cultivation of critical thinking ability into one language course, the author designed an activity called simplified Modal United Nations conference, which is based on the revised Bloom's Taxonomy that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language)
O'Sullivan, Saskia Katarina Emily; Harrison, Timothy Guy – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
This qualitative study indicates that Chinese origin students completing their pre-university education in a British school have particular difficulties related to sociocultural change, pedagogical differences, affective aspects, cognitive demand and language learning. These are discussed. The use of a pre-laboratory software resource to support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Peer reviewedCorrales, Olga; Call, Mary Emily – Foreign Language Annals, 1989
A study investigated communication strategies used to express lexical meaning in English by two groups (intermediate and advanced) of Spanish-speaking adult learners of English-as-a-Second-Language. Both structured and unstructured tasks were used to assess interlanguage development vis-a-vis proficiency, and results indicated that the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Hicks, Marilyn M. – 1989
Methods of computerized adaptive testing using conventional scoring methods in order to develop a computerized placement test for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were studied. As a consequence of simulation studies during the first phase of the study, the multilevel testing paradigm was adopted to produce three test levels…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Algorithms, Computer Assisted Testing
Strategies in Responding to the New TOEFL Reading Tasks. TOEFL Monograph Series. MS-33. ETS RR-06-06
Cohen, Andrew D.; Upton, Thomas A. – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
This study describes the reading and test-taking strategies that test takers used in the Reading section of the LanguEdge courseware (ETS, 2002a). These materials were developed to familiarize prospective respondents with the new TOEFL®. The investigation focused on strategies used to respond to more traditional single selection multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Test Items, Courseware, Item Analysis
