The Effect of the Gender and Culture of the IELTS Examiner on the Examinees' Performance on the IELTS Speaking Test in the UAE Context.
This study examined the effect of the gender and culture of the IELTS examiner on the performance of Arab examinees on the IELTS speaking test. It relied on Communication Accommodation Theory to account for the linguistic behaviour of the examinees in reaction to the gender and the culture of the IE...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 33 - 53 |
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