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Table 5 Correlations among IELTS tasks scores, attitude scores, and background variables

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

Predictors

IELTS sample total scores

FLU

PRON

SS

VOC

RAI total score

.560**

.534**

.418**

.470**

.569**

RAI part score one

.498**

.508**

.272**

.422**

.556**

RAI part score two

.225*

.168

.317**

.177

.159

RAI rating tendency

.206

.125

.233

.236

.177

Indian/non-Indian

− .252*

− .192

− .063

− .329*

− .303*

Native language

.133

.128

.061

.164

.121

Gender

− .073

− .018

− .116

− .041

− .089

Teaching experience

− .128

− .137

.000

− .123

− .180

Education level

.002

− .056

− .021

.089

− .003

  1. RAI part score one rater feeling, RAI part score two rater belief, FLU fluency, PRON pronunciation, SS sentence structure, VOC vocabulary
  2. *p < .05, **p < .01