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Direct linkLi, Shuai; Taguchi, Naoko; Xiao, Feng – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
Adopting Linacre's guidelines for evaluating rating scale effectiveness, we examined whether and how a six-point rating scale functioned differently across raters, speech acts, and second language (L2) proficiency levels. We developed a 12-item Computerized Oral Discourse Completion Task (CODCT) for assessing the production of requests, refusals,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Rating Scales, Guidelines, Evaluators
Taguchi, Naoko – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2011
This cross-sectional study examined the effect of general proficiency and study-abroad experience in production of speech acts among learners of L2 English. Participants were 25 native speakers of English and 64 Japanese college students of English divided into three groups. Group 1 (n = 22) had lower proficiency and no study-abroad experience.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
