When BAWE meets WELT:The use of a corpus of student writing to develop items for a proficiency test in grammar and English usage

This article reports on the use of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus as a source for developing test items for the Grammar and English Usage section of the Warwick English Language (WELT) test in 2007. A key feature of this newly designed multiple choice grammar test was its use of...

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Main Author: Gerard Paul Sharpling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SIG Writing of EARLI 2010-08-01
Series:Journal of Writing Research
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Online Access:http://jowr.org/articles/vol2_2/JoWR_2010_vol2_nr2_Sharpling.pdf