| How Reliable are English Teachers as L2 Writing Raters? |
| کد مقاله : 1030-CNF-FULL |
| نویسندگان |
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مسعود عزیزی *1، فائقه شاه حسینی2 1استادیار، گروه زبانهای خارجی. دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر 2مدرس، کالج بین الملل دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران |
| چکیده مقاله |
| As expert raters are often not available or it is not cost-effective to employ them in most educational contexts, performance assessments are often carried out by language instructors, who may not enjoy an adequate competence in teaching and assessing L2 writing. This makes the investigation of the accuracy of ratings done by language teachers a must. In so doing, three language teachers, each with a different background in teaching and assessing writing, were randomly selected, and their ratings of 30 IELTS samples were compared against those of an expert rater using One-Way ANOVA tests. The teachers’ ratings were often found significantly different from those of the expert rater in most cases, with language teachers with no or very little background in teaching L2 writing demonstrating a greater deviation. However, for some components in IELTS rubric, the teacher with an L2 writing background could outperform the other teachers and reach a performance very close to that of the expert rater. Moreover, the only significant correlations were found between the ratings done by the writing teacher and those of the expert rater, indicating that only he could interpret the scoring criteria not significantly different from the expert rater. The results demonstrated that language teachers are not generally suitable writing raters as they are affected by their own teaching background and understanding of the rating criteria. |
| کلیدواژه ها |
| L2 Writing, Expert Rater, Rater training, Accuracy |
| وضعیت: پذیرفته شده مشروط برای ارائه به صورت پوستر |