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Investigating Test-Takers' Use of Linguistic Tools in Second Language Academic Writing Assessment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Investigating Test-Takers' Use of Linguistic Tools in Second Language Academic Writing Assessment./
Author:	Oh, Sae Rhim.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	335 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-08A(E).
Subject:	English as a second language. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10747964
ISBN:	9780355772722

Investigating Test-Takers' Use of Linguistic Tools in Second Language Academic Writing Assessment.
Oh, Sae Rhim.

Investigating Test-Takers' Use of Linguistic Tools in Second Language Academic Writing Assessment. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 335 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018.

Advancements in technology have greatly influenced how students write, the ways they interact with readers, and the genres they create. In order to reflect real-world writing behaviors in the assessment setting and to be able to generalize test-takers' performance from the assessment to their true writing ability, the current study investigated test-takers' use of linguistic tools in second language academic writing assessment. The linguistic tools of interest involved three frequently used tool types: spelling, grammar, and reference tools (i.e., dictionary and thesaurus). Three highly contextualized tasks which reflect the tasks second language learners may encounter in the academic domain of language use (i.e., writing an apologetic email, a negative online review, and an opinion on a discussion board) were used as a way to elicit test-takers' writing ability. Additionally, as a means of measuring writing performance, writing ability was defined in terms of the accuracy and/or variety of grammatical forms, semantic meanings, and pragmatic meanings produced in the written responses (Purpura, 2004, 2014, 2017).

ISBN: 9780355772722Subjects--Topical Terms:

516208
English as a second language.

Investigating Test-Takers' Use of Linguistic Tools in Second Language Academic Writing Assessment.
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