IELTS Collected Papers: Research in Speaking

IELTS (the International English Language Testing System) and its predecessor ELTS have served for over 25 years as a high-stakes proficiency test to assess the English language skills of international students wishing to study or train in English-speaking environments. During that time the test has been regularly revised in light of findings from ongoing research and validation studies to ensure that it remains a valid and reliable measure. This book brings together a collection of research studies conducted between 1995 and 2001 under the auspices of the British Council/IELTS Australia Joint-funded Research Program which promotes independent research among IELTS stakeholders worldwide. The ten studies - four on speaking and six on writing assessment - provided valuable test validity evidence and directly informed the revised IELTS Speaking and Writing tests introduced in 2001 and 2005.

Abbreviations	p. x
Contributors	p. xii
Series Editors' note	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Speaking
Interviewer style and candidate performance in the IELTS oral interview	p. 37
Methodology evaluation	p. 62
An investigation into the role of gender in the IELTS oral interview	p. 63
Methodology evaluation	p. 96
An investigation of the rating process in the IELTS oral interview	p. 98
Methodology evaluation	p. 140
A survey of examiner attitudes and behaviour in the IELTS oral interview	p. 142
Methodology evaluation	p. 183
The impact of the joint-funded research studies on the IELTS Speaking Module	p. 185
Writing
Authenticity in the IELTS Academic Module Writing test: a comparative study of Task 2 items and university assignments	p. 197
Methodology evaluation	p. 249
A linguistic analysis of Chinese and Greek L1 scripts for IELTS Academic Writing Task 2	p. 250
Methodology evaluation	p. 314
A corpus-based investigation of linguistic responses to an IELTS Academic Writing task	p. 316
Methodology evaluation	p. 378
Investigating task design in Academic Writing prompts	p. 379
Methodology evaluation	p. 420
The effect of standardisation-training on rater judgements for the IELTS Writing Module	p. 422
Methodology evaluation	p. 445
Assessing the value of bias analysis feedback to raters for the IELTS Writing Module	p. 446
Methodology evaluation	p. 477
The impact of the joint-funded research studies on the IELTS Writing Module	p. 479
Appendices
Progress of the IELTS interview	p. 58
Description of the multifaceted Rasch model	p. 61
Transcription notation	p. 95
Instructions to raters	p. 139
IELTS Speaking test: examiner questionnaire	p. 165
Individual comments made by IELTS examiners (Australia)	p. 169
Individual comments made by IELTS examiners (Asia-Pacific)	p. 179
Sources of IELTS Task 2 items used in the study Sample IELTS Task 2 items used in the study and list of topics	p. 242
Interview schedule	p. 245
Sample question paper from Monash University	p. 247
Problems of reliability in analysing language errors	p. 303
Academic Writing Task 2: the question prompt	p. 372
Topic analysis at each level	p. 373
Control tasks	p. 407
Experimental tasks	p. 409
Research design for administration of control and experimental tasks	p. 417
Ethics consent	p. 419
Instructions for Project Task 1	p. 439
Tables 10.9-10.13	p. 440
Examples of raters' notes explaining rationale for score awarded	p. 442
Planning schedule for the project	p. 470
Rater confidentiality declaration	p. 471
Examples of feedback reports	p. 472
IELTS Research Project - Questionnaire	p. 475
References	p. 493
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