World Englishes and ITA Assessment
10:10 - 11:50am CDT
Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ontario Room
Presented at: AAAL 2018
In colloquium: Transdisciplinary Approaches to International Teaching Assistant Research within Applied Linguistics
The purpose of this presentation is to explore the feasibility of assessing alternative constructs other than Inner Circle English varieties in standardized international language test. How a special training package that targets Chinese and Indian English varieties affects raters’ scores and scoring criteria by a mixed-method design will be investigated.