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Table 2 Educational background and teaching experience of the teachers of English

From: Evaluating CEFR rater performance through the analysis of spoken learner corpora

 

Teacher 1

Teacher 2

Teacher 3

Teacher 4

Teacher 5

Teacher 6

First language

Mandarin Chinese

English

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese

Current academic position

Lecturer

PhD student and lecturer

Lecturer

Lecturer

Lecturer

Lecturer

Recognized qualification in teaching English

TKT Module 1, 2, 3, and Young Learners, MA in Applied Linguistics (TEFL)

TEFL/ TESOL, Oxford Cambridge Phonics, BA in Education

MA in TESOL

MA in TESOL

MA in English Literature

MA in TEFL

Years of teaching experience at university

9

in Taiwan

12

in the USA, China, Korea

14

7

10

in Taiwan

12

in Taiwan

Years of teaching experience elsewhere

0.5

12 (elementary/secondary)

in the USA, China, Korea

3

8

0

4 (preschool/young learners)

in Taiwan

Familiarity with non-English accents

Chinese

Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Indonesian

Chinese

Chinese, Japanese, Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian

Chinese, Japanese

Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Indian, and German

Past experience of rating speaking

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Familiarity with CEFR before the rater standardization training

Basic

None

Basic

None

Limited

Limited

Past experience in using the CEFR scales for marking spoken English

None

None

None

None

None

None