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Horowitz, Daniel – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1989
A genre analysis of 284 essay examination prompts reveals specific discoursal characteristics that function to communicate what type of response will be considered legitimate. The finding suggests that, for test-takers to decode prompts, they must draw from the same functional/linguistic knowledge of genre that the test constructor did. (15…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cues, Decoding (Reading), Essay Tests
