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Assessing interactional competence in a multiparty roleplay task: A mixed-methods study
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Surveying the growth and development of spoken nlanguage interpreting in Hawai'i
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The Le Fetuao Samoan Langauge Center oral proficiency interview
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A narrative perspective on a well-founded fear: Officer stancetaking in a political asylum documentary
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Getting the forest for the trees: Situation transcending is massively multiplayer online games
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The role of visuo-spatial and verbal working memory in L2 Japanese reading proficiency
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Student perspectives on group work and use of L1: Academic writing in a university EFL course in Thailand
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Moving from "she just sits there" to "she's opened my eyes": Evolution of writing tutor roles in conferences with L1 and L2 student-athletes
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A blended learning approach to reading circles for English language learners
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Oral and aural English as a foreign langauge needs at an international school
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Vocabulary acquisition with affixation: Learning English words based on prefixes & suffixes
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Talking with abuelo: Styling insider-outsider identities in a multi-cultural family
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Extracurricular L2 input in a Japanese EFL context: Exposure, attitudes, and motivation
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Designing a task-based critical listening construct for listening assessment
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Language anxiety in second language writing: Is it really a stumbling block?
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"Mista, are you in a good mood?": Stylization and crossing as an affiliative resource for biilding rapport in classroom interaction
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Evaluating rater and rubric performance on a writing placement exam
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As higher education institutions pursue internationalization in response to globalization, the lingua franca status of English is driving expectations that even in countries where English is not a national language, graduate students should have the language skills to be able to disseminate their research in English. It is within this wider context that several departments at Universidad de Los Andes (Los Andes), a well-respected private research university in Colombia, asked the Department of Languages and Socio-Cultural Studies (D-LESC) to create a program that would promote their PhD students’ ability to write for publication and present at academic conferences in English. Faculty in D-LESC developed both the curriculum for the resulting Inglés para Doctorados (IPD) program and the IPD Placement Exam, which includes a reading section already in wider use at Los Andes as well as speaking and writing sections written specifically for the new program. During a pilot phase and after the IPD exam became operational, the faculty involved in test development checked its reliability and monitored how well students were being placed into IPD classes. However, as the potential consequences of test use became more extreme—shortly after the IPD program was approved, completion thought the third level (IPD 3) became required for all PhD students, and some departments began to limit admissions to their PhD programs based on IPD exam results—the lead test developer felt a more thorough evaluation of the exam’s reliability and validity was in order. Thus in the spring of 2012 I joined the lead test developer in a comprehensive evaluation of the IPD Placement Exam. One part of this larger evaluation project involved investigating the writing section in order to address practical concerns of administrators and faculty in the IPD program: namely, whether raters and the scoring rubric were functioning effectively. I assumed responsibility for this part of the evaluation, and the current report is a more extensive and technical presentation of findings that will be shared with IPD program stakeholders so that they can make informed decisions about whether there are any aspects of rater training and/or scoring materials and procedures which could benefit from revision.
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/40721
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Strategic decoding of sociopragmatic assessment tasks–An exploratory think-aloud validation study
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