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Diagnostic Writing Assessment: The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale
Ute Knoch
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Description for Diagnostic Writing Assessment: The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale
Hardback. Series: Language Testing and Evaluation. Num Pages: 320 pages, fig. and tables. BIC Classification: CFDC; CJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 221 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing situations. This book presents a study which set out to develop and validate a rating scale specifically designed for the diagnostic assessment of writing in an academic English setting. The scale was developed by analysing a large number of writing performances produced by both native speakers of English and learners of English as an additional language. The rating scale was then ... Read more
The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing situations. This book presents a study which set out to develop and validate a rating scale specifically designed for the diagnostic assessment of writing in an academic English setting. The scale was developed by analysing a large number of writing performances produced by both native speakers of English and learners of English as an additional language. The rating scale was then ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Condition
New
Series
Language Testing and Evaluation
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Bern, Switzerland
ISBN
9783631589816
SKU
V9783631589816
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Ref
99-2
About Ute Knoch
The Author: Ute Knoch is a research fellow at the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in the area of language assessment, second language acquisition, and language pedagogy.
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