Direct and Semi-Direct Validation: Test Takers’ Perceptions, Evaluations and Anxiety towards Speaking Module of an English Proficiency Test

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Houman  Bijani ¹ (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mona  Khabiri ² (Department of English Language Teaching, Islamic Azad University; Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2017-04-25 Accepted : 2017-04-25 Published : 2017-04-01

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