Strategies in Performing a Multi-Level C-Test: Applying Think-Aloud Protocols | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya – Tomsk State University Journal of Philology. 2021. № 73. DOI: 10.17223/19986645/73/1

Strategies in Performing a Multi-Level C-Test: Applying Think-Aloud Protocols

The aims of this study were: 1) to identify the cognitive strategies that Russian EFL learners apply while taking a multi-level C-test; 2) to examine the correlation between the level of complexity of a C-test and the frequency of the usage of the cognitive strategies. The Think-Aloud Protocols method allowed to reveal seven cognitive strategies (predicting, summarizing, questioning, making connections, re-reading/using fix-ups, identifying a problem, and reflecting). The results of chi-square tests indicate that texts with different complexity levels can trigger different type of processing used by the test-takers.

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c-Test, cognitive strategies, language proficiency assessment, think-aloud protocols

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Babaii Esmat	Kharazmi University	babai@khu.ac.ir
Permyakova Tatiana M.	Higher School of Economics	tpermyakova@hse.ru
Pozdeeva Ekaterina V.	Higher School of Economics	epozdeeva@hse.ru

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