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Applied Research on English Language، جلد ۱۱، شماره ۱، صفحات ۳۹-۶۲
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| عنوان انگلیسی |
Cognitive and Psychological Characteristics and EFL Learners’ Test Performance: A Validity Study |
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| چکیده انگلیسی مقاله |
Language learners' test performance is affected by individual attributes that are not part of test takers’ language ability (Bachman, 1990). The identification of such factors and the study of their association/impact with/on EFL learners' test performance has been a real test validity concern for language testing researchers (Bachman, 1990, 2004). This study was designed to explore the relation of a number of cognitive and psychological attributes and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' test performance. To this end, two hundred male (100) and female (100) Iranian intermediate EFL learners selected through convenience sampling procedure took Goal-orientation Scale, Test Preparation and Test-taking Strategy Scale, and Examination Stress Scale and a sample Test of English as a Foreign Language Junior Standard (TOEFL Junior). Regression analyses of the questionnaires and the TOEFL test results demonstrated that mastery goal orientation, performance goal orientation, test-taking strategy and test anxiety all correlated with EFL learners' test performance; however, test taking strategy was the strong cognitive predictor and performance goal orientation was the strongest psychological predictor of the EFL learners' test performance. The results seem to indicate that in addition to previously identified factors like test anxiety and test taking strategies some factors like performance and mastery goal orientations which were once deemed as construct irrelevant factors in EFL learners' test performance need to be added to the battery of personal attributes that are influential factors in this regard. |
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| کلیدواژه‌های انگلیسی مقاله |
Mastery goal-orientation, Performance goal-orientation, Test-taking strategy, Test anxiety and Test performance |
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| نویسندگان مقاله |
Mohammad Ahmadi Safa |
Associate Professor of TEFL, Department of English, Faulty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
Rahime Karbakhsh Ravari |
MA in TEFL, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
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https://are.ui.ac.ir/article_26210_ec136c8bb918c09c42f46aac26058191.pdf |
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