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Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn; Reiter, Rosina Marquez – Language Testing, 2003
Reviews assumptions underlying approaches to research into speaking task difficulty and questions the view that test scores always vary with task conditions or discourse variation. Offers a new approach to defining task difficulty in terms of the interaction between pragmatic task features and first language cultural background. Results of a study…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Difficulty Level, Language Tests, Oral Language
