Raters' social considerations in the essay writing process. The case of Chinese assessors of high-stake exam essays written in English KU Leuven
© John Benjamins Publishing Company. The social cognitive view on essay rating process argues that human essay rating is constrained by a series of the measures issued by the test institution. However, studies of the institutional constraints all focused on text quality relevant factors interfering into the rating process. Text quality irrelevant social factors remain uninvestigated. Taking the TEM8 (a test for English majors in China) as an ...