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1、JournalofEnglishforAcademicPurposes3(2004)229–246www.elsevier.com/locate/jeapArguingabouthowtheworldisorhowtheworldshouldbe:theroleofargumentinIELTStestsCarolineCoffinCentreforLanguageandCommunications,FacultyofEducationandLanguageStudies,TheOpenUniversity,WaltonHall,MiltonKey
2、nesMK76AA,UKAbstractNonnativespeakersofEnglishwishingtostudyattertiarylevelinEnglishspeakingcoun-triesareincreasinglyrequiredtoprovetheirEnglishlanguagecompetencebytakinganinternationallyrecognisedtestsuchastheTestofEnglishasaForeignLanguage(TOEFL)andtheInternationalEnglishLa
3、nguageTestingSystems(IELTS).ThisarticlereportsontheanalysisofacorpusofscriptswritteninresponsetoasectionoftheIELTStestrequiringstudentstowriteashortargumentessay.Theanalysisfocusesontherangeofargumentstructuresdeployedbystudents,aimingtoestablishtheextenttowhichparticularstra
4、tegiesareassociatedwiththebandscoreawardedforthetask.Thearticlealsoconsiderspossibleeffectsofthedesignofthetestonstudentresponses.#2004ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.Keywords:Argumentgenres;Discourseanalysis;Englishforacademicpurposes;Englishlanguagetests;Functionallinguistics1
5、.IntroductionTertiaryeducationiscurrentlyexperiencingconsiderablechange.Twoinfluen-cingfactors,andonesthathaveimplicationsforEnglishlanguageteaching,aretheglobalisationoftertiaryprovisionandnewelectronicformsofcoursedelivery.Thesefactorshavecontributedtotheexpansionofthenumber
6、sofnonnativespeakerstudentsenteringEnglishmediumuniversitystudyofferedbyEnglishspeak-ingcountries—eitherfollowingtraditionalfacetofaceprogramsor,increasingly,Tel.:+44-1908-858-495;fax:+44-1908-654-111.E-mailaddress:c.coffin@open.ac.uk(C.Coffin).1475-1585/$-seefrontmatter#2004Else
7、vierLtd.Allrightsreserved.doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2003.11.002230C.Coffin/JournalofEnglishforAcademicPurposes3(2004)229–246programsthataredeliveredatadistance(Coffin,Curry,Goodman,Hewings,Lillisetal.,2003:3–5).Inordertoassessstudents’capacitytosuccessfullyundertakeEnglishmediumstudy,ma
8、nytertiaryinstitutionsnowmakeaspecifiedgradeonanEnglishlan-guagetesta