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Hsieh, Ching-Ni – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Second language (L2) oral performance assessment always involves raters' subjective judgments and is thus subject to rater variability. The variability due to rater characteristics has important consequential impacts on decision-making processes, particularly in high-stakes testing situations (Bachman, Lynch, & Mason, 1995; A. Brown, 1995;…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Phonology, Teaching Assistants, Foreign Students
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Plough, India C.; Bogart, Pamela S. H. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
To what extent are the discourse behaviors of examiners salient to participants of an oral performance test? This exploratory study employs a grounded ethnographic approach to investigate the perceptions of the verbal, paralinguistic and nonverbal discourse behaviors of an examiner in a one-on-one role-play task that is one of four tasks in an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Paralinguistics, Oral Language