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The Effect of Students' Academic Discipline on Their Performance on ESP Reading Tests.
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Alderson, J. Charles; Urquhart, A. H. – Language Testing, 1985
Reviews earlier studies of the effect of student background knowledge on reading comprehension and then reports on a third investigation into the same effect. Concludes that the test results obtained in the study can be accounted for in terms of an interaction between background knowledge and linguistic proficiency. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Difficulty Level, Educational Background, English for Special Purposes
To Change or Not to Change: Investigating the Value of MCQ Answer Changing for Gulf Arab Students
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Al-Hamly, Mashael; Coombe, Christine – Language Testing, 2005
This study investigates whether the practice of answer changing on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is beneficial to Gulf Arab students' overall test performance. The proficiency exam used in this study is the Michigan English Language Institute College English Test - Grammar, Cloze, Vocabulary, Reading (MELICET-GCVR), which was developed using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College English, Arabs, Multiple Choice Tests