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Peer reviewedCumming, Alister; Kantor, Robert; Powers, Donald E. – Modern Language Journal, 2002
Documents three coordinated, exploratory studies that developed empirically a framework to describe the decisions that experienced writing assessors make when evaluating English-as-a-Second/Foreign-Language (ESL/EFL) written compositions. The studies are part of ongoing research to prepare a new scoring scheme and tasks for the writing component…
Descriptors: Decision Making, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Scores
