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This study examined whether or not raters’ language background influences Korean test-takers’ English-speaking evaluations. Five native and fourteen nonnative English-speaking raters scored 120 speaking samples divided into six different speaking levels in terms of accuracy, vocabulary, fluency and pronunciation. The MANOVA results showed that there were significant effects for raters’ language background on the ratings. Overall, the nonnative English-speaking raters were more severe in their judgments than the native English-speaking raters. There were significant mean differences in accuracy and vocabulary ratings between the two groups of raters across most test-takers’ speaking levels. However, there were no significant mean differences in ratings for higher levels of test-takers for some individual criteria such as fluency and pronunciation. This paper provided some evidence of the effect of language background on English-speaking ratings, indicating that there were some differences between the ratings produced by native and nonnative raters depending on test-takers’ oral proficiency levels and scoring criteria.
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비원어민 채점자, 채점자 신뢰도, 준직접적 말하기 시험
