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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"TOEFL"”.
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Accessing A Global Language: A Comparison of G-TELP and TOEFL Performance
… First wave learners have traditionally taken the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), which is internationally recognized yet inappropriate for the second wave learners due to its focus on academic English. The G-TELP (General Test of English as a Foreign Language) is designed to test …
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Understanding test preparation behaviors of TOEFL iBT repeater test takers in China
<p>Individuals who take the TOEFL test more than once are called TOEFL repeaters. TOEFL repeaters’ test preparation behaviors are understudied and there is a lack of understanding about the interpretation of repeaters’ multiple test scores. This study investigated TOEFL iBT (Internet-based test) …
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A *Validity Narrative: Effects of Reading Skills Diagnosis on Teaching and Learning in the Context of NG TOEFL
Skills diagnostic assessment has great potential to provide pedagogically useful information for teachers and students. However, the potential of skills diagnosis is subject to the extent to which a set of skills can be sufficiently specified and further to the degree to which it is integrated into …
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TOEFL as a prediction tool for placement into ESL writing courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… the EPT. Some on campus have suggested that TOEFL might be a suitable pre-screening tool for predicting ESL placement, regardless of the test publisher’s advice not to do so. The primary purpose of this research is to find out whether TOEFL can serve as a pre-screening tool for placement into …
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Application of the Rule Space Model to the Reading Comprehension Section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Toefl)
… of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The study consisted of the following three parts: (a) identifying a set of attributes which would underlie the examinee's performance on the reading comprehension section of the TOEFL, (b) determining how consistently each test item is …
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The influence of teaching practice I and teaching practice II on students’ english language proficiency at the Department of Foreign Languages of the University of El Salvador, academic year 2015
… were bound to take a version of Paper Based TOEFL Test (pBT TOEFL) in order to be placed in different subjects and departments at the University where would do their Teaching Practice. By doing so, students took a version of TOEFL to be placed in their teaching practice but they were also …
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Examination of the appropriateness of using standardized test scores for English as a second language (ESL) placement
… that the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) are most widely accepted tests. However, the RU/VHs significantly differed in terms of score requirements for admission. A substantial difference was also observed between test …
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Cultural Factors Influencing Japanese Female College Students' Perceptions of Learning in a Web-Based Environment: Implications for Web-Based Instructional Designers
… between pre and posttest mean scores on the Pre-TOEFL Test of those Japanese female college students taking a TOEFL preparation course via web-based instruction, and the mean pre and posttest scores of another group of Japanese female college students taking a similar course in a teacher-centered …
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Construct Validation of an Integrated, Process-Oriented, and Computerized English for Academic Purposes (Eap) Placement Test: A Mixed Method Approach
… GPA. Second, the CEEPT is convergent with the TOEFL listening, the TOEFL essay writing, and the GRE analytical writing sections. The CEEPT measures different abilities than do the quantitative and analytical sections of the GRE, as indicated by insignificant and low correlation coefficients. …
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Cognitive Diagnostic Perspectives of a Second Language Reading Test
… are involved in the reading section of the TOEFL, (2) although the test is psychologically multidimensional, the test can be psychometrically unidimensional if the students' solution strategies were summarized into one cognitive path, and (3) if student response patterns were categorized …
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Testing the Measurement Invariance of Large-Scale Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency Using Multiple Group Covariance Structure Analyses and Item Response Modeling
… the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), which is argued to evaluate the potential success of non-native speakers of English to understand and use standard American English at English speaking higher education institutions, measures the same abilities or attributes to the same …
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A THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENCES OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS WITH THE INTERNET-BASED TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
… who have successfully taken the internet-based TOEFL. This research suggests that direct methods of eliciting opinions and experiences may be essential as participants described experiencing problems which they do not report to the ETS.
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The influence of morphological and lexical competences in the reading proficiency of fourth year students from modern languages major at the department of foreign languages of the University of El Salvador during the year 2014
… is a vocabulary test which is a section of the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) that measures the ability of non-native speakers of English provided by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The second one, a morphology test that was designed to carry out an investigation about …
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DOMAIN ADAPTATION FOR AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING
… rater for their high-stakes exams, GRE and TOEFL. However, most of these AES systems use prompt-speci c features. This means that each time a new prompt is introduced, a large number of essays need to be annotated as training data. This thesis gives an overview of the AES task and shows that …
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An Investigation of English Structure Rules in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… language background (Spanish or non-Spanish), TOEFL group (high or low), and test type (I, II, or III) as the independent variables. The following error structures were found to be attributable, in part, to Spanish language interference:
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Machine learning approaches to improving mispronunciation detection on an imbalanced corpus
… English (Read Aloud responses from the TOEFL Junior Pilot assessment). In order to address problems caused by this extreme class imbalance, two machine learning approaches, cost-sensitive learning and over-sampling, are explored to improve the classification performance. Specifically, …
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Implementing a cognitive diagnostic assessment in an institutional test: a new networking model in language testing and experiment with a new psychometric model and task type
… The models are applied to three sets of data, TOEFL Reading, TOEFL Listening and ECPE Grammar and examined in terms of their model fit to the data and functioning. The item-association root mean squared error values and multiple information criteria all indicate that the general model (LCDM) …
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Improving Communicative Competence of Korean College Students Based On the Flipped Classroom Model: A Handbook for Teachers
… grades in different types of exams such as TOEFL, TOEIC, and IELTS. Despite their high test-scores, many Korean students are not proficient in communicating with others in English. Given the challenges many Korean students at the college-level experience with communication in English, there …
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Тестирование навыков устной речи : Опыт составления заданий по устной речи для финского электронного абитуриентского экзамена (русский язык базовой программы)
… kompetenssista sekä kansainvälisten (TOEFL, IELTS) ja suomalaisen (YKI) kielitestien esimerkkiä. Tutkielmaa varten laatima testi on tarkoitettu B3-venäjän ylioppilaskokeen suullista kielitaitoa mittaavaan osioon. Testi koostuu kolmesta osasta ja sisältää yhteensä kahdeksan tehtävää: …
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Field Independence as a Predictor of Second Language Learning for Adult Esl Learners in the u.s. (United States)
… and English proficiency tests comprised of the TOEFL and EPT as well as an Oral Interview (Bachman and Palmer, 1981). Results of a regression analysis showed that FI contributed to success on the total scores of all the language measures at the .05 level. Furthermore, FI predicted success on the …
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