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This study aims to determine the most important difficulties that face graduate students while doing listening section of (iBT) TOEFL test. A sample 214 was selected from eight Jordanian universities during summer semester in academic year 2021- 2022. All participants studied English as a foreign language for more than fifteen years. The findings revealed lacking practice skill real-life events...

This research probes into the washback effects of TOEFL iBT (the Test English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) and how teachers in training institutions instruct preparation course Shanghai. The findings this article show that are supposed to transform general language skills teachable materials need be more aware cross-cultural learning problems. study points out has an influence bot...

The purpose of this research was to analyze EFL writing tasks in two of the most popular English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) exam preparation courses in Iran, namely IELTS and TOEFL. Having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate EFL writing tasks in 3 IELTS and 3...