Investigating the effect of source characteristics on task comparability in integrated writing tasks

The study presents an attempt to explore the impact of source characteristics on task comparability in integrated writing tasks. To this end, two read-listen-write tasks of TOEFL iBT were selected to differ in topic, structural organization, and lexical and conceptual overlap, suggested to be significant in affecting summary quality (Cho, Rijmen, & Novák, 2013; Li, 2014; Yu, 2009). The performance of a group of TOEFL candidates on the two tasks...