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Determining the Evaluative Criteria of an Argumentative Writing Scale

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  • Vahid Nimehchisalem
  • Jayakaran Mukundan

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Even though many writing scales have been developed, instructors, educational administrators or researchers may have to develop new scales to fit their specific testing situation. In so-doing, one of the initial steps to be taken is to determine the evaluative criteria on which the scale is supposed to be based. As a part of a project that was proposed to develop a genre-based writing scale, a survey was carried out to investigate Malaysian lecturers’ views on the evaluative criteria to be considered in evaluating argumentative essays. For this purpose, a group of English as a Second Language (ESL) lecturers (n=88) were administered a questionnaire. The subscales of organization, content and language skills were recommended by factor analysis. A fourth subscale, task fulfillment, was added as a result of the qualitative analysis of the data. The findings can be useful for language teaching or assessing purposes.

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  • Vahid Nimehchisalem & Jayakaran Mukundan, 2011. "Determining the Evaluative Criteria of an Argumentative Writing Scale," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 4(1), pages 1-58, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:4:y:2011:i:1:p:58
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    1. Batoul Ghanbari & Hossein Barati & Ahmad Moinzadeh, 2012. "Problematizing Rating Scales in EFL Academic Writing Assessment: Voices from Iranian Context," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 5(8), pages 1-76, August.

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