Point to Point: A Reaction to Ito's "Japanese EFL Learners' Test-Type Related InterIanguage Variability"

Page No.: 
87
Writer(s): 
Takao Imai, Aichi Mizuho College

The article by Akihiro Ito (Volume 19, No.1, May 1997, pp. 89-105)
reported on a survey as to the effect of different three test-types-Cloze
Procedure, Grammaticality Judgment, and Sentence Combining-on the
accuracy rates in interlanguage performance of Japanese EFL learners
and examined the reliability and validity of the Grammatical Judgment
test. He concluded: 1) the accuracy rate changes according to the expected
order-Cloze Procedure> Grammaticality Judgment> Sentence
Combining; and 2) unexpectedly, the Grammaticality Judgment test had
fairly high reliability, showing moderate correlation with the other two
test-types; however, since its discriminative ability seems limited, it should
be used with extreme care (p. 98).

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