IELTS Collected Papers Book

Abbreviations     x
Contributors     xii
Series Editors' note     xv
Introduction   Lynda Taylor     1
Speaking
Interviewer style and candidate performance in the IELTS oral interview   Annie Brown   Kathryn Hill     37
Methodology evaluation     62
An investigation into the role of gender in the IELTS oral interview   Kieran O'Loughlin     63
Methodology evaluation     96
An investigation of the rating process in the IELTS oral interview   Annie Brown     98
Methodology evaluation     140
A survey of examiner attitudes and behaviour in the IELTS oral interview   Brent Merrylees   Clare McDowell     142
Methodology evaluation     183
The impact of the joint-funded research studies on the IELTS Speaking Module   Lynda Taylor     185
Writing
Authenticity in the IELTS Academic Module Writing test: a comparative study of Task 2 items and university assignments   Tim Moore   Janne Morton     197
Methodology evaluation     249
A linguistic analysis of Chinese and Greek L1 scripts for IELTS Academic Writing Task 2   Barbara Mayor   Ann Hewings   Sarah North   JoanSwann   Caroline Coffin     250
Methodology evaluation     314
A corpus-based investigation of linguistic responses to an IELTS Academic Writing task   Chris Kennedy   Dilys Thorp     316
Methodology evaluation     378
Investigating task design in Academic Writing prompts   Kieran O'Loughlin   Gillian Wigglesworth     379
Methodology evaluation     420
The effect of standardisation-training on rater judgements for the IELTS Writing Module   Clare Furneaux   Mark Rignall     422
Methodology evaluation     445
Assessing the value of bias analysis feedback to raters for the IELTS Writing Module   Barry O'Sullivan   Mark Rignall     446
Methodology evaluation     477
The impact of the joint-funded research studies on the IELTS Writing Module   Lynda Taylor     479
Appendices
Progress of the IELTS interview     58
Description of the multifaceted Rasch model     61
Transcription notation     95
Instructions to raters     139
IELTS Speaking test: examiner questionnaire     165
Individual comments made by IELTS examiners (Australia)     169
Individual comments made by IELTS examiners (Asia-Pacific)     179
Sources of IELTS Task 2 items used in the study Sample IELTS Task 2 items used in the study and list of topics     242
Interview schedule     245
Sample question paper from Monash University     247
Problems of reliability in analysing language errors     303
Academic Writing Task 2: the question prompt     372
Topic analysis at each level     373
Control tasks     407
Experimental tasks     409
Research design for administration of control and experimental tasks     417
Ethics consent     419
Instructions for Project Task 1     439
Tables 10.9-10.13     440
Examples of raters' notes explaining rationale for score awarded     442
Planning schedule for the project     470
Rater confidentiality declaration     471
Examples of feedback reports     472
IELTS Research Project - Questionnaire     475
References     493