A group of 314 Spanish-speaking elders were classified in 55 participants with mild to moderate dementia, 74 participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 185 control participants, according to clinical evaluation derived. Sensitivity, specificity, and detection characteristics of frequently cognitive and functional tests were calculated in comparison with the clinical evaluation: Mini...

Fifty-four female and 77 male hockey players ranging in age from 10-15 years volunteered for this study. Demographic data included: age (AGE) and years of playing experience (YPE). Off-ice tests included: height (HGT), body mass (BM), lean body mass (LBM), predicted body fat % @AT%), 40-yard dash (40YD), vertical jump (VJ), push-upslmin (PUPS), sit-upslmin (SUPS), and sit-and-reach flexibility ...

Background: The National Center Test is a test that high school graduates take in order to be matriculated into the majority of universities in Japan. Its English section (NCT), though, is scheduled to be replaced by commercially available private English tests of four skills (reading, listening, speaking, writing) due to the fact that NCT currently measures only the receptive skills of reading...

Speech recognition in Persian (Farsi) has recently been addressed by a few native speaking researchers and some approaches to isolated word and phoneme recognition have been reported. A main bottleneck in this research field is the lack of a recognition-specific speech corpus. In this work, a phonetically balanced speech database of Persian has been modified and used in continuous speech recogn...

As it is known formative assessment focuses on both the learning process and learner's performance. In this study digital traditional speaking tests were utilized comparatively to evaluate 52 upper-intermediate EFL learners' English language skills. The was designed as a mixed-method. quantitative data collected via achievement which had been administered in tests. qualitative findings with stu...

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...

english passive has always been regarded as a challenge by farsi-speaking efl learners. despite the presence of many linguistic and pedagogical approaches in studying and teaching english passive, there still appears to be a pedagogical gap facing farsi-speaking efl learners dealing with this construction. taking up the cognitive-construction grammar perspective, the present article aims to inv...

The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of clickers, the communicative approach and the lecture method on the communicative competence development of learners who were taught English a second language (ESL). Ninety nine pupils from three primary schools participated in the study. Quasi-experimental nonrandomised pre-test posttest control group design was adopted for the study. A bat...