ESL/EFL Instructors' Practices for Writing Assessment: Specific Purposes of General Purposes?.

Cumming, Alister

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ERIC Number: EJ625002

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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ESL/EFL Instructors' Practices for Writing Assessment: Specific Purposes of General Purposes?

Cumming, Alister

Language Testing, v18 n2 p207-24 Apr 2001

Interviewed teachers from around the world to examine a specific purpose (SP) versus general purpose (GP) distinction in their orientations to the work they do. The difference in orientation was signaled in the criteria the teachers use to assess students' writing. (Author)

Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Interviews, Language Teachers, Language Tests, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Testing, Writing Evaluation, Writing Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Assessing Language for Specific Purposes.