This study examined the effect of culturally-specific items on performance Arab candidates IELTS Listening Test. Using an online survey and focus-group discussions with 16 teachers 32 at Al Ain University in Abu Dhabi/the United Emirates, current showed that independent variable, i.e., ‘culture’ has a negative impact candidates’ performance. The results revealed most culturally-loaded section T...

The objectives of this research are to explore how the EFL students aware toward American and British English know students’ perception towards both varieties that influence their learning experiences. This qualitative descriptive conducted ethnonarrative approach, which were analyzed descriptively through collecting data, reducing inappropriate displaying concluding data. results revealed way ...

Cloze was officially introduced in a journal on Journalism as a technique for estimating text readability and as "a new psychological tool for measuring the effectiveness of communication" (Taylor, 1953: 415). Different varieties of cloze have since been developed and experimented upon as measures of such diverse traits as reading comprehension and language proficiency. The findings of numerous...

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...