Recent versions of international high-stakes tests like TOEFL and IELTS have made use of integrated tasks in addition to the traditional independent tasks in a claim to provide a more realistic estimation of the test takers’ language abilities. The present study aimed to investigate how test takers’ performance may differ on such tasks. As such, the test takers’ performance was compared on IELT...

Various sectors have been affected by the Covid-l9 pandemic, including education. Many institutions not yet applied face-to-face learning in full to prevent transmission of virus. The aims this study are (1) examine motivation EAP learners learn IELTS online and offline classes during a pandemic on an English course, (2) identify changes student process that situation. This uses qualitative des...

This experimental study considered the effects of learning style variations on EFL learners’ performance in different question types of the reading skill and their strategies to get higher scores. To achieve such goals, ninety learners with different academic backgrounds from IELTS classes of Shukuh English Language Institute in Tehran, participated in this study. The researcher first utilized ...