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1、AninvestigationofexaminerratingofcoherenceandcohesionintheIELTSAcademicWritingTask2AuthorsFionaCottonKateWilsonUniversityofNewSouthWalesUniversityofCanberraGrantawardedRound14,2008Thisstudytakesanin-depthlookattheassessmentofcoherenceandcohesion(CC)intheIELTSAcademi

2、cWritingTask2.Itinvestigatesthelevelofdifficultyexaminersexperience,thefeaturestheylookfor,andtheextenttowhichtheirmarkingofCCdiffersfromtheirmarkingofothercriteria.Theimpactofexaminerqualifications,experienceandtrainingmaterialsonassessmentreliabilityisalsoexamined

3、.ClickheretoreadtheIntroductiontothisvolumewhichincludesanappraisalofthisresearch,itscontextandimpact.ABSTRACTThestudyinvestigatedwhetherexaminersfindthemarkingofcoherenceandcohesion(CC)intheIELTSAcademicWritingTask2moredifficultthanthemarkingoftheothercriteria;what

4、featuresofCCexaminersarelookingforinmarkingAcademicWritingTask2;theextenttowhichtheydifferintheirmarkingofCCcomparedtotheirmarkingoftheothercriteria;whetherqualificationsandexperiencehadanimpactonassessmentreliability;andhowmuchcurrentexaminertrainingmaterialsclarif

5、yunderstandingsofCC.Thestudyinvolvedthink-aloudprotocolsandfollow-upinterviewswith12examinersmarkingasetof10scripts,andaquantitativestudywith55examinersmarking12scriptsandcompletingafollow-upquestionnaire.Thequantitativedatarevealedthatexaminerreliabilitywaswithinth

6、eacceptablerangeforallfourcriteria.ThemarkingofCCwasslightlylessreliablethanthemarkingofGrammaticalRangeandAccuracyandLexicalResource,butnotsignificantlydifferenttoTaskResponse.Nosignificanteffectscouldbefoundforexaminers’qualificationsorexperience,whichsuggeststhat

7、thetrainingiseffective.ThefindingsshowedthatexaminersfoundthemarkingofCCmoredifficultthantheothercriteria.ExaminerswereconscientiousinapplyingthebanddescriptorsandusedtheterminologyofthedescriptorsforCCmostofthetime.Theyalsointroducedothertermsnotexplicitlyusedinthe

8、CCdescriptors,suchas‘flow’,‘structure’and‘linkingwords’,aswellastheterms,‘essay’,‘introduction’‘conclusion’and‘topicsentence’.Theintroduct