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The Effectiveness of Dynamic Assessment on Listening Comprehension Development: A Case Study
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Ebadi, Saman; Bashiri, Saba – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2020
Having its roots in Vygotsky's Socio Cultural Theory of mind (SCT), Dynamic Assessment (DA) helps learners perform beyond their independent functioning abilities. This study seeks to investigate the effects of DA on Persian listening comprehension. An Iraqi university student learning Persian language was provided with listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Assessment, Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests
The Gender Discrimination and Regional Difference Effect on Reading Literacy of College Students: A Case from Iraq
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Mahmoud, Ziead Dhirgham; Kamal, Hawraa Neima; Salim, Leena Ramzy; Grain, Hayder Mohammed Jawad Salih; Alqiraishi, Zaid Hilal Abed; Algaragolle, Wissam Mohammed Hassan; Dawood, Imad Ibrahim – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Building a strong sense of citizenship and literacy via reading is essential. Students who are proficient readers may perform better in educational settings. Reading literacy has been connected to gender and regional inequalities in national and international studies. As a result, the research's main goal is to examine how gender disparities and…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Literacy, College Students, Foreign Countries
Psychometric Evaluation of Cloze Tests with the Rasch Model
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Dhyaaldian, Safa Mohammed Abdulridah; Al-Zubaidi, Sura Hasan; Mutlak, Dhameer A.; Neamah, Nour Raheem; Albeer, Ali A. Mohammed Ali; Hamad, Doaa A.; Al Hasani, Saad Fadhil; Jaber, Mustafa Musa; Maabreh, Hatem Ghaleb – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Cloze tests are gap-filling tests designed to measure overall language ability and reading comprehension in a second language. Due to their ease of construction and scoring, cloze tests are widely used in the context of second and foreign language testing. Previous research over the past decades has shown the reliability and validity of cloze…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Cloze Procedure, Reading Tests, Language Skills
The Differential Effect of Attentional Condition on Subsequent Vocabulary Development
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Mohammed, Halah Abdulelah; Majid, Norazman Abdul; Abdullah, Tina – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study addressed the potential methodological issues effect of attentional condition on subsequent vocabulary development from a different perspective, which addressed several potential methodological issues of previous research that have been based on psycholinguistic notion of second language learner as a limited capacity processor. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
Pragmatic Difficulties in the Production of the Speech Act of Apology by Iraqi EFL Learners
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Al-Ghazalli, Mehdi Falih; Al-Shammary, Mohanad A. Amert – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pragmatic difficulties encountered by Iraqi EFL university students in producing the speech act of apology. Although the act of apology is easy to recognize or use by native speakers of English, non-native speakers generally encounter difficulties in discriminating one speech act from another. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Speech Acts
The Effect of the Reader's Background on Reading Comprehension Performance
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Al-Noori, Bushra Saadoon Mohammed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study aims at measuring the amount of the effect of the reader's background knowledge on performance in reading comprehension tests through the assessment of information gained in reading comprehension (RC) tests across-four testing techniques, short answer questions ,true-false items, multiple-choice items, and cloze test and re-test. This…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning