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Topic and Accent Coverage in a Commercialized L2 Listening Test: Implications for Test-Takers' Identity
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Vahid Aryadoust – Applied Linguistics, 2024
I analyzed a corpus of the international English language testing system (IELTS) comprising 256 listening sections (1996-2021). The primary objective of the study was to gain insights into the assumptions made by test designers regarding the real-life contexts that test-takers will encounter. Overall, 15 superordinate topic areas and 300 subtopics…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Commercialization, Second Language Learning