Showing 55 results for "Vocabulary"
- 'What's your score?': An investigation into language descriptors for rating written performance
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This study addresses the problem of inconsistency in rating IELTS exams and, further, the need for valid criteria for rating levels of written performance.Determining written performance involves a se...
- Comparison of IELTS Academic and Duolingo English Test
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This report provides an in-depth comparison between IELTS Academic and the Duolingo English Test (DET), based on a review of publicly available documentation and published scholarship on each test. We...
- Documenting features of written language production typical at different IELTS band score levels
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This study addresses the question of how competence levels, as operationalised in a rating scale, might be related to what is known about L2 developmental stages. This study has taken its lead from di...
- The cognitive processes of taking IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
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This research investigated the cognitive processes of candidates taking IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 (AWT1) with different graphic prompts at two different time points – before short training on how ...
- The effect of screencast feedback on the performance of the IELTS essay writing component among pre-service teachers of English
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This study explores the effect of screencast feedback on EFL pre-service teachers’ IELTS essay skills and examines their perceptions of this type of feedback. This is a two university action research...
- The effects of testwiseness and test-taking anxiety on L2 listening test performance: A visual (eye-tracking) and attentional investigation
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This study considered the extent to which test wiseness and test anxiety affected performance on the IELTS Listening test. It sought to address the following three research questions. What effects doe...
- Vietnamese IELTS learners’ perceptions of IELTS Writing Task 2 and their performance-based lexical resource
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This study explored how Vietnamese IELTS learners perceived IELTS Writing Task 2, particularly their lexical self-efficacy, and how they displayed their lexical resource in their IELTS Task 2 writing ...