After elaborating the definition of working memory, the relationship between short-term memory and working memory, chunking in SLA and the relationship between short-term memory and chunking, this paper proves the importance of chunking through the experiment: the students’ capacity in fast reading, reading in depth, listening and cloze from experimental group was affected by vocabulary depth t...

one of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. it is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. current second language (l2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in l2 classrooms. this study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learning...

this study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (dif) on the special english test of the iranian national university entrance exam (inuee). the effect of gender and subject area was taken into account. the study utilized one-parameter irt model with a sample of 36000 students who sat for the inuee special english test in 2004 and/or 2005. the findings confirmed the presence of d...

Abstract In order to have a better understanding of the nature reading behavior, it is quite essential scrutinize underlying assumptions two competing theories: componential approach and unitary hypothesis see how this reflected on testing skills. As result, current study was aimed at broadening existing knowledge horizon by trying identify if there relationship in overall scores learners diffe...

Este artigo resulta de pesquisa, com apoio na Psicolinguística, que teve como objetivo examinar a compreensão leitora alunos do 9º ano Ensino Fundamental II ao 3º Médio, considerando escolaridade, instrumentos e questões. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram 74 distribuídos nesses anos, uma escola pública cidade Porto Alegre (RS/Brasil). A coleta dados foi realizada utilizando testes no formato Questi...

In this paper, we propose a novel configurable framework to automatically generate distractive choices for open-domain cloze-style multiple-choice questions. The incorporates general-purpose knowledge base effectively create small distractor candidate set, and feature-rich learning-to-rank model select distractors that are both plausible reliable. Experimental results on new dataset across four...

The purpose of the study was to investigate how far cloze procedure valid in monitoring EFLstudent teachers reading comprehension and implicitly their progress Five hundred student paticipated the  work  experimental validity tests had be checked correlation  to  commonly used technique a passage followed by some questions As depends mainly on students which turn has do with  his /her preference