DECISION MAKING WHILE SCORING EFL TAPE-MEDIATED SPEAKING TEST PERFORMANCE  

英语录音口试评分决策过程研究(英文)

作　　者：王海贞[1] 

机构地区：[1]苏州大学外国语学院

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2008年第4期17-28,16+128,共14页中国应用语言学（英文）

摘　　要：This study investigates how raters make their scoring decisions when assessing tape-mediated speaking test performance. 24 Chinese EFL teachers were trained before scoring analytically five sample tapes selected from TEM4-Oral, a national EFL speaking test designed for college English major sophomores in China. The raters' verbal reports concerning what they were thinking about while making their scoring decisions were audio-recorded and collected during and immediately after each assessment. Post-scoring interviews were used as supplements to the probe of the scoring process. A qualitative analysis of the data showed that the raters tended to give weight to the content, to punish both grammar and pronunciation errors and to reward the use of impressive and uncommon words. Moreover, the whole decision-making process was proved to be cyclic in nature. A flow chart describing the cyclic process of hypothesis forming and testing was then proposed and discussed.本文采用即时回溯、受激回忆等口头报告方法追踪了24名评分员在评判英语录音口试样本时的思维过程,重点关注评分员的分数决策过程。结果表明:1)评分员在决策分数时侧重内容;2)在评判语法和语音语调时倾向于找错误,在评判词汇时倾向于找"亮点"加分,在评判内容时倾向于综合考虑切题性、逻辑性和完整性;3)评分员普遍采用循环评分法,分数决策呈现假设—验证/修订的循环过程。

关 键 词：decision-making process raters tape-mediated speaking test TEM4 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]