Reading comprehension has won much effort on the part of teachers, testers, and researchers in Iran due to the fact that the immediate need of Iranian students at different university levels is the ability to read in order to get new information on the topic they are studying. The question raised is how much reading practice can move learners along the horizontal axis of development predetermin...

In applied linguistics, washback, or backwash, refers to the influence of tests on teaching and learning. Though there is now a large body of research investigating the impact of tests on educational processes and outcomes, the possible effect of language tests on the psychological environment of language classrooms remains underexplored. This study examined the effect of IELTS on the classroom...

The current study focused mainly on the role of linguistic complexity IELTS writing Task 2. In other words, it investigated differential effects two interrelated complexiti...

For purposes of the present study, it was hypothesized that field (in)dependence would introduce systematic variance into Iranian EFL learners’ overall and task-specific performance on task-based reading comprehension tests. 1743 freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior students all majoring in English at different Iranian universities and colleges took the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT). Th...

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The study focused on the comparative correlative Test Rubrics Used as Benchmarks in Assessing International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and of a Foreign (TOEFL) Speaking Skills. To carry out this project, researcher searched for IELTS TOEFL candidates recruited finally selected 37 male female who took both standard tests various reasons. statistical results obtained (mainly Pearson&...