Assessing the content quality of essays in content and language integrated learning: Exploring the construct from subject specialists’ perspectives

• Published in: Language Testing Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 316 - 337
• Main Author: Sato, Takanori
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.04.2024; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Academic writing; Content and language integrated learning; English as a second language learning; English as an international language; Essays; Language assessment; Learning Activities; Second language writing; Second language writing instruction; Student writing; Subject specialists; Thinking Skills; think-aloud protocols; Argumentative writing; CLIL; raters’ judgments; content; L2 writing

Assessing the content of learners’ compositions is a common practice in second language (L2) writing assessment. However, the construct definition of content in L2 writing assessment potentially underrepresents the target competence in content and language integrated learning (CLIL), which aims to f...