A wealth of research has been conducted to compare extensive and intensive reading thanks their increasing popularity in educational settings globally. However, only a limited number studies have measure the effects movie-enriched activities. To this aim, present study was undertaken investigate movie enriched on freshman students` TOEFL IBT vocabulary expansion speaking section scores. In rega...

The aim of this paper is to provide a comparison of various algorithms and parameters to build reduced semantic spaces. The effect of dimension reduction, the stability of the representation and the effect of word order are examined in the context of the five algorithms bearing on semantic vectors: Random projection (RP), singular value decomposition (SVD), non-negative matrix factorization (NM...

When nurses who are educated internationally immigrate to the United States, they are expected to have English language proficiency in order to function as a competent nurse. The purpose of this research was to provide sufficient information to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to make a defensible recommended passing standard for English proficiency. This standard was bas...

The number of U.S. and Canadian dental schools offering programs for dentists with degrees from other countries leading to the D.D.S. or D.M.D. degree has increased recently. This fact, along with the diversity of educational systems represented by candidates for these programs, increases the importance of identifying valid admissions predictors of success in international dental student progra...

ABSTRAKKeterampilan dan kompetensi sangat dibutuhkan untuk dapat bersaing di era Revolusi Industri 4.0, salah satunya adalah keterampilan bahasa Inggris sebagai lingua franca hampir seluruh bidang ilmu pengetahuan. Beberapa perguruan tinggi Indonesia menetapkan kebijakan tentang kemampuan para lulusannya, yaitu dengan memberlakukan ketentuan skor Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) at...

Over the last few years, role of computers has become a controversial issue in language learning. This study was designed to examine the impact of computer anxiety and computer self-efficacy on the speaking section of the TOEFL iBT test taken by Intermediate EFL learners. The researchers intended to find out, which var- iable i.e. computer anxiety and/or self-efficacy would result in better per...

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