Strategic Competence and EFL Reading Test Performance; A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

ISBN-13: 9783631559017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 231 str.

Grotjahn, Rüdiger

Spis treści

Contents: Strategic competence - Second language reading strategies - Human information processing - EFL reading achievement - Structural equation modeling - Strategic reading instruction.

O autorze

The Author: Aek Phakiti is Lecturer in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages) in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney (Australia). His research interests focus on language testing, second language acquisition, strategic competence, second language reading, and research methods. He lectures on language testing and evaluation, second language acquisition, and research methods in language learning in the MEd program in TESOL at the University of Sydney. He obtained M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in applied linguistics from the University of Melbourne, and has published his research in Language Testing and Language Learning journals. He is currently editor of the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.