The accuracy of student self-assessments of english-chinese bidirectional interpretation: A longitudinal quantitative study

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 386-398

  Han, Chao ^a   Riazi, Mehdi ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Consecutive interpreting; Interpretation assessment; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023760719     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2017.1353062     Document Type: Article

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