Effect of topical knowledge on L2 writing

This study investigates the effect of topical knowledge on university-level ESL (English as a Second Language) students’ writing in a testing situation, following Messick”s (1989) validity theory, which embraces an integration of multiple types of validity evidence (content-, criterion-, and constru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: He, Ling
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27919