Literature Review of The Relationship between Written Discourse Features and Integrated Listening-to-Write Task

Caixia Liu

doi:10.54691/9ywfmq03

Authors

Caixia Liu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/9ywfmq03

Keywords:

Complexity; Accuracy; Fluency; Integrated Listening-to-Write Scores.

Abstract

This paper reviews the relevant literature on the relationship between discourse writing features including complexity, accuracy, and fluency, and integrated Listening-to-Write Scores. Due to the diversity and complexity of the indicators for measuring discourse writing feature, reviewing and analyzing the relevant literature on discourse writing features helps to comprehensively understand the research content, research methods, and research progress of the previous literature. Meanwhile, as integrated writing tasks in large-scale and classroom-based writing assessments have risen in popularity, research studies have increasingly concentrated on providing validity evidence. Therefore, it is beneficial to review the existing literature whose research findings can serve as the basis for further research on certain issues, while also helping to expand research ideas, and research methods.

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