Alderson (2005) suggests that diagnostic tests should identify strengths and weaknesses in
learners' use of language and focus on specific elements rather than global abilities …

Traditionally, second language writing assessment has employed writing tasks that require
only a single skill; however, in many academic contexts, writing requires the integration of …

The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has
often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges …

This study adopts a local grammar approach to investigate exemplification in Chinese
English-major MA student writers' and expert writers' academic writing. Using corpora …

This study investigates the relationships between connectedness in discourse and the in-
text comments that tutors write on postgraduate essays at a Thai university. Connectedness …

The category of coherence in rating scales has often been criticized for being vague. Typical
descriptors might describe students' writing as having 'a clear progression of ideas' or …

We introduce a novel writing method called Probing Chain-of-Thought (ProCoT), which
potentially prevents students from cheating using a Large Language Model (LLM), such as …

This study explores the relationship between pragmatic performance of discourse acts and
second language (L2) English writing proficiency. To this end, the study focuses on one …

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second language (L2) learners' written
texts. The authors conducted a major study on changes and differences in English L2 …

The present study was conducted to extend what is known about the writing skills of low
achieving postsecondary students. Using an archival data set, a sample of argumentative …