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Lee, Abby Deng-Huei – English Language Teaching, 2018
To evaluate the sensitivity of multiple-choice cloze (MCC) tests that use different types of items--syntactic, semantic, and connective--to assess reading ability, 170 English as a foreign language (EFL) students in a vocational college in Taiwan were recruited. The students were divided into two groups (level A and level B) based on their scores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Choice Tests, Cloze Procedure, Test Items
Al-Seghayer, Khalid – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study examines the effects of an electronic reading environment's structure on second language (L2) reading comprehension. In particular, this study explores whether clarifying the underlying structure of an electronic text, along with the ways in which its units or nodes are organized and interrelated results in better comprehension as well…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Sadeghi, Elahe; Afghari, Akbar; Zarei, Gholam-Reza – English Language Teaching, 2016
Reading comprehension has been the main concern for second language learners and researchers. Today with rising interests towards Vygotskyan Sociocultural Theory (SCT), attempts have been made to insert Vygotskyan approach into Foreign/Second Language classrooms emphasizing the role of scaffolding and meaningful interactions to promote learners'…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), College Students, Pretests Posttests
Nejad, Ferdows Mohsen; Khosravian, Fereshteh – English Language Teaching, 2014
The present study examined the reliability of an achievement test to measure the efficacy of task-based writing activities to improve Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension at the intermediate level in a private language institute in Ilam, Iran, namely Alefba language institute. To achieve the goal, the techniques for evaluating reliability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Test Reliability, Writing Assignments
Solnyshkina, Marina I.; Harkova, Elena V.; Kiselnikov, Aleksander S. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The article summarizes the study of Reading Comprehension Tasks utilized in preparation for Unified (Russian) State Exam. The corpus of reading tasks was analyzed with the use of the classification algorithm developed by Weir and Urquhart (1998), and aimed at determining the level of engagement (local or global) and type of engagement (literal or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items
Lim, Chang Kuan; Eng, Lin Siew; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid – English Language Teaching, 2014
Reading and understanding a written text is one of the most important skills in English learning.This study attempts to benchmark Year Five students' reading abilities of fifteen rural schools in a district in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to develop a set of standardised written reading comprehension and a set of indicators to inform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Benchmarking, Rural Schools
Solnyshkina, Marina I.; Harkova, Elena V.; Kiselnikov, Aleksander S. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The article summarizes the results of the comparative study of Reading comprehension texts used in B2 level tests: Unified (Russia) State Exam in English (EGE) and Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE). The research conducted was mainly focused on six parameters measured with the Coh-Metrix, a computational tool producing indices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Khansir, Ali Akbar; Dashti, Jamshid Gholami – English Language Teaching, 2014
The main aim of the study was to investigate the effect of question-generation strategy on Iranian EFL third grade high school students' ability in reading comprehension passages via multiple-choice question .In this research, the total number of one hundred and twenty male and female students participated. For homogeneity of the students, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
Ajideh, Parviz; Mozaffarzadeh, Sorayya – English Language Teaching, 2012
Cloze tests have been widely used for measuring reading comprehension since their introducing to the testing world by Taylor in 1953. But in 1982, Klein-Braley criticized cloze procedure mostly for their deletion and scoring problems. They introduced their newly developed testing procedure, C-test, which was an evolved form of cloze tests without…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Language Tests
Khodadady, Ebrahim; Elahi, Majid – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study explored the effect of employing two language teaching approaches, i.e., schema-based instruction (SBI) and translation-based instruction (TBI) on the structure and vocabulary knowledge as well as reading comprehension ability of sixty undergraduate students studying general English in a medical school in Mashhad, Iran. While the SBI…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Reading Comprehension
Rezaee, Abbas Ali; Shoar, Neda Sharbaf – English Language Teaching, 2011
In recent years, improvements in technology have enhanced the possibilities of teaching and learning various subjects. This is specially the case in foreign language instruction. The use of technology and multimedia brings new opportunities for learning different areas of language. In this regard, the present study attempts to find out if the use…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Hatam, Amir Hussein; Shafiei, Shilan – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of the present study was twofold. Firstly, it tried to investigate the relationship between the technical English proficiency of the students of Mechanical Engineering in the universities of Iran and their technical translation proficiency in translating technical texts of Mechanics. Secondly, it attempted to evaluate the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English for Special Purposes, Translation, Language Proficiency

Corbluth, Julian – English Language Teaching, 1975
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Item Analysis, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests