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Accent, Listening Assessment and the Potential for a Shared-L1 Advantage: A DIF Perspective
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Harding, Luke – Language Testing, 2012
This paper reports on an investigation of the potential for a shared-L1 advantage on an academic English listening test featuring speakers with L2 accents. Two hundred and twelve second-language listeners (including 70 Mandarin Chinese L1 listeners and 60 Japanese L1 listeners) completed three versions of the University Test of English as a Second…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Listening Comprehension Tests, Mandarin Chinese, Pronunciation