2. PARTICIPANTSALLOCATION, THE REPRESENTATION OF LANGUAGE THE PARTIC...

5.2. Participants

allocation, the representation of language

The participants of the main study

skills, the representation of topics, the clarity

consisted of 103 students who had completed

of questions, the clarity of instruction and

their English course. The participants’ ages

mark allocations in these previous FVQ was

ranged from 18 to 22 years. Furthermore, 20

listed in order to gather necessary items which

English lecturers participated in the survey

are useful for examining the opinions about

for face validity investigation. These English

the validity of a language test. Next, the first

lecturers were teaching English at a public

draft of the questionnaire for face validity of

university in Vietnam and their ages ranged

the IET was produced from these previous

from 30 to 50 years. More importantly, they all

studies and then refined to make sure that the

have had experiences in teaching, designing

adaption of the instrument would meet the

the English tests as well as assessing the

requirements of investigating the lecturers’

students’ language ability.

and students’ opinions about the validity of

the IET.