کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
344302 617366 2013 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A closer look at integrated writing tasks: Towards a more focussed definition for assessment purposes
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
A closer look at integrated writing tasks: Towards a more focussed definition for assessment purposes
چکیده انگلیسی


• We review current definitions of integrated writing tasks.
• We review integrated writing assessment tasks used.
• We argue that the current definition of integrated writing tasks are too vague.
• We propose a new definition for integrated writing assessment tasks.

The use of integrated tasks is increasingly common in second language assessment in both high stakes and classroom contexts. However, because of the vague definition of what constitutes an integrated task, the types of tasks included in this area and the assessment of the resulting writing is highly varied. In this paper, we argue for a better definition of the term ‘integrated writing task’. We start by reviewing current definitions available in the literature, discuss the construct underlying integrated tasks and then propose a number of features which we feel need to be present in integrated tasks. We then propose a new, narrower definition of the term. We hope that this will result in better task design, improved assessment outcomes for test takers, more detailed test specifications, better replicability of research and a shared research agenda.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Assessing Writing - Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2013, Pages 300–308
نویسندگان
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