Using Multiple-Variable Matching to Identify EFL Ecological Sources of Differential Item Functioning
Using Multiple-Variable Matching to Identify EFL Ecological Sources of Differential Item Functioning

Touraj Jalili; Hossein Barati; Ahmad Moein Zadeh

Volume 38, Issue 4 , March 2020, , Pages 1-42

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2020.36702.2794

Abstract
  Context is a vague notion with numerous building blocks making language test scores inferences quite convoluted. This study has made use of a model of item responding that has striven ...  Read More
THE EFFECT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF METAPHORS ON TEACHING ECONOMIC TERMS TO IRANIAN ECONOMIC MAJORS IN ESP COURSES
THE EFFECT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF METAPHORS ON TEACHING ECONOMIC TERMS TO IRANIAN ECONOMIC MAJORS IN ESP COURSES

Adeleh Heidari; Azizollah Dabaghi; Hossein Barati

Volume 34, Issue 3 , October 2015, , Pages 87-107

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2015.3586

Abstract
  The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of two strategies of explicit teaching of economic terms on learners' vocabulary learning and retention. In the first explicit ...  Read More
Gender-based DIF across the Subject Area: A Study of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam
Gender-based DIF across the Subject Area: A Study of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam

Hossein Barati; Ali Reza Ahmadi

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, , Pages 1-26

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.413

Abstract
  This study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (DIF) on the Special English Test of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam (INUEE). The effect of gender and ...  Read More