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Using Corpus-Based Register Analysis to Explore the Authenticity of High-Stakes Language Exams: A Register Comparison of TOEFL iBT and Disciplinary Writing Tasks

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Staples, Shelley; Biber, Douglas; Reppen, Randi – Modern Language Journal, 2018

One of the central considerations in the validity argument for the TOEFL iBT is the relationship between the language on the exam and the language required for university courses. Corpus linguistics has recently been shown to be an effective way to explore this relationship, which can also be considered as an aspect of authenticity. Applying…

Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Language Tests