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While there has been a considerable body of work undertaken on assessing the writing abilities of native speakers, the issues surrounding the assessment of second language learners writing abilities. Integrating reading and writing in a competency test for nonnative speakers of english. First of all, it covers the questionwhat is reading. Sara cushing weigle assessing ebook download as pdf file. The survey of the research literature conducted for this study, both seminal and recent, revealed that little guidance is currently offered for the development of lowlevel writing tasks, despite the practical need for assessing writing at this level. You might be surprised to learn that we don t really know what reading is. Full text of sara cushing weigle assessing writing see other formats. Assessing writing isbn 9780521780278 pdf epub sara cushing. Cambridge university press 9780521784467 assessing. The answers to these questions are provided by this book, which examines the theory behind the practice of assessing a students writing abilities. And to boot, the authors simply provide the information, never get preachy, or demand one method over another. Cambridge core elt applied linguistics assessing writing by sara cushing. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies. Investigating raters use of analytic descriptors in.
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