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标题：Effects of Gender and Passage Content on Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Test
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作者：Bahman Gorjian ; Bahman Gorjian ; Mehdi Javadifar 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2013
卷号：84
页码：723-727
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.634
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThis study examined the effects of the readers’ gender and passage content on multiple-choice (M-C) reading comprehension test performance among Iranian EFL university students at the upper-intermediate level. Sixty participants passed three M-C reading comprehension tests (male-oriented, female-oriented, and neutral). Findings revealed significant effects of the readers’ gender and passage content on the test performance of the EFL readers (p<.05). The results of this study provided evidence that pri or knowledge and interest to the passage content concerned with readers’ gender have facilitating effects on the performance of the foreign language learners taking M-C reading comprehension test at the upper-intermediate level.
关键词：Gender;passage content;multiple-choice;reading comprehension test