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Assessing Learners' Writing Skills in a SLA Study: Validating the Rating Process across Tasks, Scales and Languages
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Huhta, Ari; Alanen, Riikka; Tarnanen, Mirja; Martin, Maisa; Hirvelä, Tuija – Language Testing, 2014
There is still relatively little research on how well the CEFR and similar holistic scales work when they are used to rate L2 texts. Using both multifaceted Rasch analyses and qualitative data from rater comments and interviews, the ratings obtained by using a CEFR-based writing scale and the Finnish National Core Curriculum scale for L2 writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Finno Ugric Languages