Investigating the Predictive Validity of IELTS for a Teacher Education Program in UAE Slim Khemakhem A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of the West of England, Bristol for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Presented to the Department of Humanities Languages and Social Sciences University of the West of England Bristol, UK November 2016 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by UWE Bristol Research Repository