Developing an Analytic Scale for Scoring EFL Descriptive Writing

English language practitioners have long relied on intuition-based scales for rating EFL/ESL writing. As these scales lack an empirical basis, the scores they generate tend to be unreliable, which results in invalid interpretations. Given the significance of the genre of description and the fact tha...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Khatib, Mostafa Mirzaii
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tabriz 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning
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Online Access:https://elt.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_4960_60a34127ab8ce74fd8808599ef7864a3.pdf