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Li, Hui – English Language Teaching, 2016
The aim of the study was to investigate how raters come to their decisions when judging spoken vocabulary. Segmental rating was introduced to quantify raters' decision-making process. It is hoped that this simulated study brings fresh insight to future methodological considerations with spoken data. Twenty trainee raters assessed five Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluators, Interrater Reliability, Decision Making
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Guo, Siao-cing – English Language Teaching, 2012
Current literature points to the importance and benefits of extensive reading. Extensive reading provides contextualized clues for better reading comprehension (Krashen, 1982), and substantial linguistic input (Bell, 1998) needed for language development. Several studies have found a correlation between extensive reading and specific linguistic…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction