speaking assessment is still construed as a complicated, under-researched process from the vantage point of tasks and rater characteristics. the present study aimed at investigating if and how english major and none english major teachers differ in their perception of the construct of oral proficiency while assessing learners’ l2 oral proficiency.  to this end, 38 male and female non-native efl...

This article is concerned with the high-dimensional location testing problem. For settings, traditional multivariate-sign-based tests perform poorly or become infeasible since their Type I error rates are far away from nominal levels. Several modifications have been proposed to address this challenging issue and shown well. However, most of modified sign-based abandon all correlation informatio...