Article "Comparing writing performance in TOEFL-iBT and Academic assignments: An exploration of textual features"

Ayu Rina Dwi Utari
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72nd article

"Comparing writing performance in TOEFL-iBT and Academic assignments: An exploration of textual features"

This paper reports an exploratory research in which the written texts produced by postgraduate students in test and real-life academic situation are compared in terms of the linguistic and discoursal features. The test used the participants were studying in postgraduate programs in five universities in New South Wales, Australia. These participants completed two writing test tasks of the TOEFL-iBT (integrated and independent tasks). Textual features of the test and academic assignment texts were compared on 20 linguistic and discoursal features. Results of a series of repeated measures Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) indicated similarities and differences in the linguistic and discoursal features of the three writing task texts.