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Developing an Essay-Writing Rubric for Learners of Japanese : Based on the Analysis of Writing Assessment by Japanese University Faculty

Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World

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神戸大学国際コミュニケーションセンター

2020-12-21

2020-12-21

For this project, we have researched how Japanese university faculty members assess student opinion essays, written in Japanese, using data gathered from the results of 5-point ranking scale values and assessment comments supplied by faculty members. In this report, first, I described the overall features of the assessment viewpoints that were extracted by encoding assessment comments according to concepts. Next, I executed a co-occurrence network analysis of the 5-point ranking scale values and assessment comments. Then, I reported on the writing rubric for Japanese learners that was developed based on the results of this analysis. The salient feature of this writing rubric was that the end product was based on the actual assessment data supplied by Japanese faculty members. For example, there are three essential elements in the rubric and I used a 5-point ranking scale as the “scale levels,” with codes extracted from the faculty assessment comments as “dimensions of the assignment” and the actual wording of the assessment comments as the basis of the “description of these dimensions.” For international students who plan to enter Japanese university, this writing rubric can serve as a metric of the sort of “writing ability” expected of them when they enter the university.

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