Methods of Scoring Elicited Imitation Items: an Empirical Study

Authors

Deryle W. Lonsdale, Brigham Young UniversityFollow
Dan P. Dewey, Brigham Young University - ProvoFollow
Jeremiah Lane McGhee, Brigham Young UniversityFollow
Aaron Johnson, Brigham Young University
Ross Hendrickson, Brigham Young UniversityFollow

Keywords

Elicited imitation (EI) testing

Abstract

NNS oral proficiency test for English

NNS listen to, repeat back isolated English sentences (60/test)

Responses are recorded and scored later by human evaluators

Rationale: subjects can’t process linguistic vocabulary, structures they don’t know yet

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Lonsdale, Deryle W.; Dewey, Dan P.; McGhee, Jeremiah Lane; Johnson, Aaron; and Hendrickson, Ross, "Methods of Scoring Elicited Imitation Items: an Empirical Study" (2009). Faculty Publications. 6802.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6802

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

2009

Publisher

American Association for Applied Linguistics

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics and English Language

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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