Using Content Videos to reduce Interlingual and Intralingual Transfer of Vocabulary in an EFL Context: A small - scale study on students in Mega Soft Institution

استخدام ملفات الفيديو للتغلب على المشاكل الناتجة عن اللغة الأم و التعميم الخاطئ للمفردات في تعليم المفردات: دراسة أجريت في مؤسسة ميغاسوفت للتدريب

Test Impact and Test Design: Insights from the Syrian National Baccalaureate Examination of English

Testing in the Syrian educational system has been growing in the past six years with the average number of tests that schools and colleges set every year increased three-folds. This test inflation paved the way to the birth of a ‘testocracy’ that brought about new challenges for stakeholders and test developers. Of all the tests that Syrian students take, the National Baccalaureate Examination (NBE from here onwards) is the most critical. In the present research we try to shed light on one part of this test, namely the NBE of English language. Within the broad lines of language testing, we aimed to investigate the possibility of predicting certain facets of test impact via close examination of the test template in isolation from other factors in the teaching/learning environment.