ELICITED SPEECH FROM GRAPH ITEMS ON THE TEST OF SPOKEN ENGLISH™

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2004, Issue 1, 2004, Pages i-31

  Katz, Irvin R ^a   Xi, Xiaoming ^b   Kim, Hyun Joo ^c   Cheng, Peter C H ^d  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communicative competence; graph description task; test of spoken english (TSE ); visual processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85150560227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2004.tb01933.x     Document Type: Article

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