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Language Testing in Asia

Table 2 Mean and standard deviation for proficiency variables by three attitude groups of raters

From: Rater attitude towards emerging varieties of English: a new rater effect?

  

Positive

  

Neutral

  

Negative

 

N

Mean

SD

N

Mean

SD

N

Mean

SD

(6 × 56)

(6 × 4)

(6 × 36)

Fluency

336

7.26

.16

24

5.92

.71

216

6.10

.31

Pronunciation

336

7.26

.16

24

5.96

.69

216

5.54

.31

Sentence structure

336

6.81

.16

24

6.67

.53

216

5.89

.32

Vocabulary

336

6.88

.17

24

6.50

.51

216

5.81

.32

  1. N is the number of ratings completed by the raters (i.e., six speech samples × the number of raters in each attitude group)
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