Measuring the Written Performance Quality in terms of (CAF) Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency Constructs.
One of the concerns in language testing is measuring the extent to which the same constructs occur over certain time, across different groups of test takers in an EFL situation. The present study aims to analyse written performance of a number of English language learners over a year in a thick desc...
| Publicado en: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 639 - 655 |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=117047997&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 117047997 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01287702 TKQ jtl: Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities issn: 01287702 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2016 vid: 24 iid: 2 pid: 20751 pub: Universiti Putra Malaysia artinfo: ui: 117047997 ppf: 639 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.4MB tig: atl: Measuring the Written Performance Quality in terms of (CAF) Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency Constructs. aug: au: Dahmardeh, M. Shahmirzadi, N. affil: Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran Young Researchers and Elite Club, Robatkarim Branch, Islamic Azad University, RobatKarim, Iran su: Writing ability testing Language ability testing English as a foreign language Empirical research Fluency (Language learning) sug: subj: Writing ability testing Language ability testing English as a foreign language Empirical research Fluency (Language learning) keyword: accuracy Complexity fluency writing ab: One of the concerns in language testing is measuring the extent to which the same constructs occur over certain time, across different groups of test takers in an EFL situation. The present study aims to analyse written performance of a number of English language learners over a year in a thick description to provide in-depth empirical data focusing on performance of test takers in terms of CAF. Previously, the majority of language learners' written performance was evaluated based on some scales without taking into account the qualitative performance from the SLA perspective. Therefore, the present study tries to bridge the gap between testing and SLA. As far as the first research question, which is the relative contributions of each of the features, complexity, accuracy and fluency is concerned, the researchers found a noticeable negative correlation between the complexity, accuracy and fluency of learner performance. Concerning the development of participants in writing skill as the second research question, students did not reach the benchmarks of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels. Moreover, it was observed that forms may not develop linearly among these three dimensions, and a learner's improvement in repeating a task does not guarantee that he/she will get the most from a target-language perspective unless it raises his/her awareness. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities is the property of Universiti Putra Malaysia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities holder: Universiti Putra Malaysia dt: @attributes: year: 2016 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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