Validating a Scale Measuring Strategic Competence in ESP Reading Test Context: An Application of Bifactor-MGRM  

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Cai, Yuyang

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 9 no. 2 (2013), page 26-51.
Topik: strategic competence; strategy use; English for Specific Purposes (ESP); bifactormultidimensional graded response modeling (bifactor-MRGM)
Fulltext: 26-51.pdf (251.68KB)

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Strategic competence is perceived by English for Specific Purposes (ESP) theorists as a combination of metacognitive strategies. Recent developments in second language acquisition tend to favor an extended view to include cognitive strategies. The purpose of this study was to validate a questionnaire, Strategic Competence Scale (SCS), which assesses strategic competence combining both metacognitive and cognitive strategies in an ESP reading test context. Participants were 1,491 second-year nurse students from eight medical colleges in China. After completing a medical and nursing English reading test, they were immediately asked to respond to the SCS measuring the efficacy of their use of metacognitive and cognitive strategies during the reading test process. Results of bifactor-MGRM show that strategic competence combining metacognitive and cognitive strategies can distinguish between a general factor of strategic competence and six domain-specific strategy factors, that is, planning, monitoring, evaluating, comprehending, memory and evaluating; and that cognitive strategy factors played a more important role in determining the general factor of strategic competence than their counterparts. These results provide tentative suggestions for future studies that examine strategic competence and convey messages for strategy use training in the ESP reading context.

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