Optimal Number of Gaps in C-Test Passages

Optimal Number of Gaps in C-Test Passages

This study addresses the issue of the optimal number of gaps in C-Test passages. An English C-Test battery containing four passages each having 40 blanks was given to 104 undergraduate students of English. The data were entered into SPSS spreadsheet. Out of the complete data with 160 blanks seven additional datasets were constructed. In the first dataset the scores on the first five gaps in eac...

using c-test passages for improving reading comprehension ability and incidentally learned vocabulary of iranian efl learners

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of using c-test passages on the reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning of iranian intermediate efl learners. the participants were 60 male efl learners at kish mehr institute in garmsar. in fact, there were two groups, an experimental group and a comparison group with 30 students in each. the participants were pretested throu...

The optimal number of yard cranes in container terminal

The aim of this study is to propose a new mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model to find the minimum required number of yard cranes, Rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGCs), for completion the total amount of works at the end of planning horizon. In other word, we find the optimal number of yard cranes in a container terminal which completes the total amount of works. The paper supports the p...

optimal joint survival probability of xl reinsurance contracts in iran insurance company

اگر تنها یک صنعت جهت حفظ تعادل در بازار جهانی ضروری باشد، می توان ادعا نمود که آن صنعت بیمه است. صنعت بیمه بدون کمک صنعت بیمه اتکایی قادر به انجام وظیفه خویش نخواهد بود. اکثر تحقیقات انجام گرفته در زمینه بیمه اتکایی تنها با در نظر گرفتن منافع شرکت بیمه شده بوده است و منافع شرکت بیمه گر اتکایی کمتر مورد توجه بوده است. در این رساله با در نظر گرفتن منافع همزمان هر دو شرکت بیمه گذار اصلی و بیمه گر ...

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