TOEFL, Cultural Bias and Latin Background

Authors

  • Heitor Garcia de Carvalho
  • Maria Inês Gariglio
  • Sidney Carlos de Melo

Keywords:

reading, TOEFL, cultural background, technical-scientific texts

Abstract

Through a validity analysis of a TOEFL sample applied to Brazilian undergraduates, the linear relationship between their scores and silent reading of authentic, technicalscientific texts was rejected. Thus, its uset as co-variate in the statistical analysis has been discarded and a more complex model of variables has been postulated.

Author Biographies

Heitor Garcia de Carvalho

Heitor Garcia de Carvalho, PhD in Educational Technology - Concordia University, Canada. Associate Professor - Research and Post Graduation Department of CEFET-MG. Main areas of interest: reading; cognition; computers and education; artificial intelligence; hypertext.

Maria Inês Gariglio

Maria Inês Gariglio, MSc. in Technology and teacher at Departamento Acadêmico de Disciplinas Gerais - CEFETMG. Main areas of interest: reading; cognition; computers and education; hypertext.

Sidney Carlos de Melo

Sidney Carlos de Melo, Industrial Engineering undergraduate - CEFET-MG, under a CNPq grant.

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Vol. 18 No. 1 (1997)

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