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From 2012, NEAT( National English Ability Test - speaking, writing ) is to be administered in South Korea. And the goal of the Ministry of Education will be to decide if NEAT will be able to replace the current KSAT( Korean Scholastic Aptitude Test ) that same year. This is a significant paradigm shift in that an English speaking and a writing test are to be introduced for the first time in Sough Korea for university admission, hopefully changing English education in high school into
communication-oriented education. English speaking and writing tests will be included in middle and high school no later than 2011. In this context, this thesis deals with an English speaking test in a public middle school in Bundang area of Seongnam City. This is designed first to find if there is any meaningful change after a rater training on a rater in the scoring results, and second, if there is strong correlation between the two raters on the same speaking samples.
The main results are as follows. First of all, there was no meaningful difference in the scoring results before and after the rater training. And also, on the same speaking samples, the two raters' correlation coefficient was sufficient.