Because of the large number post-secondary English for academic purposes (EAP) programs and varying ways they are structured, it can be difficult to identify how a particular program fits within overall landscape university education. To general trends across Canada, webpages 74 EAP at 50 public English-medium universities were examined key information related each program. Data analysis includ...

This paper reports a research in progress of an academic effort to adopt TOEFL materials into English course for vocational education particularly at State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang. During the last five years, open source Learning Management Systems called Moodle has been used in the institution as a platform to deliver several science and engineering related courses in blended learning env...

In this study we investigated the extent to which writing proficiency predicts L2 writers’ speed fluency, pausing, and eye-gaze behaviours cognitive processes that underlie pausing. Additionally, explored whether these relationships were influenced by stage of (beginning, middle stages, end). The participants 60 Chinese second language users English, with levels ranging from CEFR B1 C1 levels. ...

university of tehran administers a test known as the university of tehran english proficiency test (the utept) to phd candidates on a yearly basis. by definition, the test can be considered a high-stakes one. the validity of high stakes tests needs to be known (roever, 2001). as mesick (1988) maintains, if the validity of high stakes tests are not known, it might have some undesirable consequen...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the university admissions and proficiency testing landscape. One change been meteoric rise in use of fully automated Duolingo English Test (DET) for entrance purposes, offering test-takers a cheaper, shorter, accessible alternative. This rapid response study is first to investigate predictive value DET test scores relation students’ academic attainment, taking ...