test or a question on the test

... inter-rater reliability n: the number of rater who combines estimates from the final mark for the examiner rA,B: the correlation between the raters, or the average correlation among all rater if there ... Second, the computer can deliver tests that are tailored to the particular abilities of the candidate This type of test, as also called computer-adaptive test, can provide far more information about ... think that these tests are more difficult than what they have learnt and studied for the exam, others say that these test items are easy and relevant to what they have been taught Therefore finding...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... choose the answer that appears in the options that match the ones heard in the listening * Pay attention to repeated words * Listen for the main ideas on the first hearing and then for details on the ... unreasonable to collect data about what goes on there‖ (Nunan,1992:91) In addition to survey questionnaires and written reports , class observation was also applied to clarify and test the validity ... information already given in the story), and continuation signals or backchannel communication more frequently than "lexical pushdowns" (asking about word meanings), and "global reprises" (asking...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:33

... iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration Acknowledgements Abstract Table of contents List of charts and tables Part one: Introduction……………………………………………………… Rationale…………………………………………………………………… The aims ... II.2.5.Data Analysis Chapter three: Results and Discussions……………………………………………… III.1.Questionnaire Results III.2 .The Listening Test Results and researcher’s observations III.2.1 .The Listening Test ... III.2.2.Researcher’s observation III.3.Students’ Strategy Use Under Different Test Tasks Part three: Conclusions, Recommendations and implications on listening teaching… I Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:36

... create good language tests and vice versa Bachman (1990) backed the notion that the language testing has positive effects on language teaching and learning In his words, “advances in language testing ... Publishing, USA Weir C.J (2005), Language Testing and Validation, Palgrave, Basingstoke I APPENDIX 1A QUESTIONNAIRE (for teachers at HaUI) In order to enhance the quality of the final test and make it ... short, language testing and language teaching and learning have a close and interrelated relation Teaching and learning provide a great source of language materials for test and in turn, testing...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:52

... Eventually, for the practical basis, questionnaires, class observations, reports were carried out with the students to gather the most reliable data for analysis to find the answers to the research questions ... situation analysis, material collection, survey questionnaires , class observations , and students’ written reports In the first place, situation analysis, has a low at the background to the ... materials on listening methodology and problems have been gathered, analyzed and synthetized thoroughly with the due consideration for teachers’ teaching and students’ learning situations Eventually,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:48

... annexation Europeanisation from connection with India At the time nothing was seen of the drawbacks Oudh, the Berars, Scinde, Nagpur, Satara, Jhansi, were all taken on one pretext or another, the ... probability, the ; ; ; INTRODUCTION after these arrangements, a larger proportion exacted, and in was pushed their lands, some was exceptional cases the taxation to such a point that the villagers left and ... society, who are all dependent for their support upon the agriculture of the group, and hand on their avocations others, from father to son from generation to generation If another village is formed,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 13:25

... research questions and the organization of the study Chapter reviews all related literature that provides the theoretical basis for language testing and language evaluation First, the relationships ... investigation of the qualities that a test measures, thus providing a basis for the rationale of a test These above authors also suggested that there are two aspects of construct validation: theoretical ... specification It is no doubt that test specifications play an important and essential part in test construction and evaluation Alderson, Clapham and Wall (1995:9) claim that test specifications provide...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:52

... described at the former paragraph about the Wall Street And the sub-title part is at the upper one to re-inform that the financial companies have on average $13.4 billion in daily borrowing For the above ... importance details for the second paragraph and save less important details for succeeding paragraph The least important part comes at the end and the story just stops abruptly This way is called ... preceding or following paragraph The most important idea is always placed at the beginning of a paragraph Disregarding time order, the reporter can arrange his material in the descending order of importance...

Ngày tải lên: 02/09/2012, 11:12

... word - Translation by cultural substitution - Translation using a loan word or a loan word plus an explanation - Translation by paraphrase using a related word - Translation by paraphrase using ... ways to form borrowed words like constructing a calque, or loan translation; loan transcription or borrowing directly with or without an explanation a A calque translation A calque or loan translation ... unrelated word - Translation by omission - Translation by illustration (Baker, 1994: 26-42) Of these strategies, translation using a loan word or a loan word plus an explanation, translation by paraphrase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:12

... were on audio cassette tapes and it was because of this method that the language laboratory became so popular 5 • The Functional-Notional Approach In the 1970s teachers of the Functional-Notional ... considered language as simply as a form of behavior, to be learned through the formation of correct habits Habit formation was a process in which the application of rules played no part The audio-lingual ... presentation of language material An approach is a set of correlative assumptions dealing with the nature of language teaching and learning 1.2.2 A Brief History of Language Teaching • The Grammar...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:41

... VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES POST GRADUATE STUDIES DEPARTMENT TRẦN QUỐC VIỆT A STUDY ON THE TECHNIQUES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT TO THE TEACHING OF ORAL SKILLS ... COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN QUẢNG NGÃI PROVINCE (NGHIÊN CỨU CÁC THỦ THUẬT NÂNG CAO VIỆC DẠY KỸ NĂNG NGHE NÓI TIẾNG ANH THEO ĐƯỜNG HƯỚNG GIAO TIẾP ... TIẾNG ANH THEO ĐƯỜNG HƯỚNG GIAO TIẾP CHO GIÁO VIÊN TRUNG HỌC CƠ SỞ TẠI TỈNH QUẢNG NGÃI) M .A. THESIS HA NOI-2007 ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:41

... deep gratitude to all my teachers at College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University-Hanoi for their valuable lectures And their knowledge, their thoughtfulness as well as their sympathy ... Tấn Bảo and my colleagues of Foreign Languages Department, Quang Ngai Teachers Training College for their attention and encouragement I am appreciative of all those who have kindly advised and helped ... Việt v ABBREVIATIONS • BA : Bachelor of Arts • : Communicative Language Teaching CLT • DES : District Education Service • ELT : English language teaching • JHS : Junior High School • TJC : Teachers...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:41

... can be regarded as an important factor affecting students’ learning situation According to Lam (2003: 26), authentic materials may include: tapes, tape-recorders, language laboratories, wall pictures, ... students are facing in teaching and learning speaking skill Secondly, the questions in the questionnaires and the interviews may not cover all the important information for the study Moreover, the answers ... things as treating all the learners the same … and acting upon their hopes and aspirations Most of it depends on paying more attention to the learner than to the teacher” According to Nunan (1991:...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44

... 2003 The characteristics of a granular activated carbon In a granular activated carbon contact basin, virgin carbon is domestic activated carbon made from palm shell, reactivated carbon means activated ... reactivated carbon is higher than that of virgin carbon The longer days of operation, the less removal rate During the 10-day operation after backwashing, the removal rate of organic matter had ... HPC according to the days of seasonal operation after backwashing (4) The number of activated carbon-attached germs The number of granular activated carbon-attached germs has been found as 1.4ⅹ105∼5.8ⅹ...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... recall as many as they can and wrote them down g Simon says: The teacher called a student as a volunteer to be Simon, the others had to as Simon told them to According to the rule, Simon had ... highest mark of the experimental class was 10 and the lowest was Actually, in the experimental class, the difference among each individual in vocabulary acquirement was greater than that among the ... slap the word the teacher read Who was both quickest and right in slaping the word got one score for their team • For experimental class: For vocabulary presentation, the teacher of experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:04

... technical translation, so it plays an important role in the development of Mechanical Engineering The thesis studies the English – Vietnamese translation of terms in the materials for Mechanical ... appropriate Vietnamese equivalents for the English terms The thesis aims to draw out common translation strategies which can be applied in the English-Vietnamese translation of terms in materials for ... ii ABSTRACT Mechanical Engineering is one of the most basic engineering sciences and technical translation makes much contribution to its development Technical term translation is part of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:04

... work and contains no material which has been submitted for the examination in any other course or accepted for the award of a degree in any other university or institution The thesis also contains ... that speaking is a very important skill among the four basic ones Therefore, having dealt with the importance of oral skills in language teaching and learning it is essential that language teachers ... such as grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary In addition, learners rely on common conventional expression of communicating specific meanings, particularly on the language environment It is clear...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06