Can ESP be tested by EGP?
| Author | M Ahmadi | en |
| Orcid | M Ahmadi [] | en |
| Issued Date | 2003-05-31 | en |
| Abstract | Background: There are two main methods employed for the evaluation of the reading comprehension ability of students of ESP; one using specialized English texts, and the other with general English texts.Purpose: To determine whether or not there is a correlation between the two methods. Methods: In the regular 1998 examinations for admission to PhD courses for 18 different medical disciplines, in which 30 subject-specific English test items were given to the applicants of each discipline, all of them were alsoevaluated using a set of 30 general English test items (n=201 0).Results: There was a positive correlation of71% between the scores of the examinees in the two tests, the highest and the lowest correlation being respectively in the scores of the applicants of Epidemiology (84%; n=118), and environmental health (56%; n=70).Conclusion: Our finding seems to warrant the use of EGP test as an adequate measure of English language competency for academic purposes. | en |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.22037/jme.v3i1.867 | en |
| URI | https://brieflands.com/journals/jme/articles/105012 | en |
| Keyword | Language Testing | en |
| Keyword | Reading Comprehension assessment | en |
| Keyword | EGP | en |
| Keyword | ESP | en |
| Publisher | Brieflands | en |
| Title | Can ESP be tested by EGP? | en |
| Type | Research Article | en |