Analyzing test-taking reading strategies in TOEFL used by university students
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2020
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"It is known that students use different strategies according to the task in
turn. Besides, the strategies in used depend on the student’s ability to use it, how
acquainted he is with it and his previous knowledge. The purpose of this research
was to analyze what were the different test taking strategies that different students
used to increase their scores in the reading comprehension section from the
TOEFL exam. This in turn could help to identify those strategies and spread its use
among other students to increase their TOEFL scores. In this study, the
instruments in used were a pre and post TOEFL test, a reading test-taking strategy
taxonomy (from Millman, Bishop & Ebel’s (1965) taxonomy on testwiseness), and a
questionnaire (adapted from Cohen & Upton (2006), and Kashkouli & Barati (2012)
on testing reading on multiple choice test (TOEFL) and reading tasks (FCE)
respectively) recollect the different data to be analyzed (under the taxonomy’s
criteria mentioned before: time-using, error-avoidance, guessing, deductive
reasoning, intent consideration, and cue-using)."
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