Annie Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1420-1519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rhetorical relations in university students’ presentations
Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan
Discussions on daily life in Early Bronze Age society in the southern Levant often focus on subsistence or ritual phenomena, while aspects relating to entertainment and leisure are rarely discussed. This paper presents evidence for gaming behaviour, in the form of game boards and game pieces, that were recovered in the excavations of the Early Bronze Age (early to mid-3rd millennium bce) residential neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. All…
Contextualised judgements
This study investigates assessment within oral academic assessment tasks, specifically focusing on the criteria used by discipline specialists and comparing them with those used to assess performance on TOEFL iBTTM speaking tasks. Three pairs of tutors from three faculties took part in verbal report sessions where they watched, rated and discussed the performances of ten native and ten non-native students completing first-year university oral ass…
Puppy Sacrifice and Cynophagy from Early Philistine Tel Miqne-Ekron Contextualized
The discovery of a sacrificed puppy at Tel Miqne-Ekron, a major Philistine settlement in Israel's southern coastal plain, highlights the role of dogs in Iron I Philistia. Though dog sacrifice is described in Hittite religious texts and attested in lands bordering the Aegean during the second–first millennia BCE, evidence for this practice, or even of dog bones, is largely absent from Late Bronze and non-Philistine Iron I (ca. 1550–1000 BCE) Levan…
Microdebris Analysis from the Early Bronze Age Levels at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath
Microdebris are the tiny remnants of activities that are not cleaned up after an activity is completed (fig. 1). Such activities are often archaeologically invisible with standard macrolevel artifact collection and analysis techniques. If microdebris are systematically and spatially collected across surfaces and different depositional contexts, their analysis can help guide excavation strategies (identification where such debris is located, which…
Animal Food Production and Consumption in Stratum E5 at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath
Uses of Language Assessments
Language tests are used in many contexts and for many purposes. Language test scores are used to make many types of decision about people and programs.
Assessing paired orals
Speaking tasks involving peer-to-peer candidate interaction are increasingly being incorporated into language proficiency assessments, in both large-scale international testing contexts, and in smaller-scale, for example course-related, ones. This growth in the popularity and use of paired and group orals has stimulated research, particularly into the types of discourse produced and the possible impact of candidate background factors on performan…
Assessed Levels of Second Language Speaking Proficiency
The study reported in this paper is an investigation of the nature of speaking proficiency in English as a second language in the context of a larger project to develop a rating scale for a new international test of English for Academic Purposes, TOEFL iBT (Brown et al. 2005). We report on a large-scale study of the relationship between detailed features of the spoken language produced by test-takers and holistic scores awarded by raters to these…
The Devil Is in the Detail
Interviewer variation and the co-construction of speaking proficiency
Whilst claims to validity for conversational oral interviews as measures of nontest conversational skills are based largely on the unpredictable or impromptu nature of the test interaction, ironically this very feature is also likely to lead to a lack of standardisation across interviews, and hence potential unfairness. This article addresses the question of variation amongst interviewers in the ways they elicit demonstrations of communicative ab…
Language background and item difficulty
The role of test-taker feedback in the test development process
This study explores how test-taker reactions in a specific purpose testing context may vary according to characteristics of the test-taker. Such reactions are of interest both theoretically to the researcher and practically to the test developer, who is concerned to ensure that the test is fair and appropriate for all candidates and acceptable to the range of test-takers. The reactions may also be of use in the improvement of test items (as a sup…
Puppy Sacrifice and Cynophagy from Early Philistine Tel Miqne-Ekron Contextualized
The discovery of a sacrificed puppy at Tel Miqne-Ekron, a major Philistine settlement in Israel's southern coastal plain, highlights the role of dogs in Iron I Philistia. Though dog sacrifice is described in Hittite religious texts and attested in lands bordering the Aegean during the second–first millennia BCE, evidence for this practice, or even of dog bones, is largely absent from Late Bronze and non-Philistine Iron I (ca. 1550–1000 BCE) Levan…
Language background and item difficulty
The role of test-taker feedback in the test development process
This study explores how test-taker reactions in a specific purpose testing context may vary according to characteristics of the test-taker. Such reactions are of interest both theoretically to the researcher and practically to the test developer, who is concerned to ensure that the test is fair and appropriate for all candidates and acceptable to the range of test-takers. The reactions may also be of use in the improvement of test items (as a sup…
Language background and item difficulty
Interviewer variation and the co-construction of speaking proficiency
Whilst claims to validity for conversational oral interviews as measures of nontest conversational skills are based largely on the unpredictable or impromptu nature of the test interaction, ironically this very feature is also likely to lead to a lack of standardisation across interviews, and hence potential unfairness. This article addresses the question of variation amongst interviewers in the ways they elicit demonstrations of communicative ab…
The Devil Is in the Detail
Assessed Levels of Second Language Speaking Proficiency
The study reported in this paper is an investigation of the nature of speaking proficiency in English as a second language in the context of a larger project to develop a rating scale for a new international test of English for Academic Purposes, TOEFL iBT (Brown et al. 2005). We report on a large-scale study of the relationship between detailed features of the spoken language produced by test-takers and holistic scores awarded by raters to these…
Assessing paired orals
Speaking tasks involving peer-to-peer candidate interaction are increasingly being incorporated into language proficiency assessments, in both large-scale international testing contexts, and in smaller-scale, for example course-related, ones. This growth in the popularity and use of paired and group orals has stimulated research, particularly into the types of discourse produced and the possible impact of candidate background factors on performan…
Uses of Language Assessments
Language tests are used in many contexts and for many purposes. Language test scores are used to make many types of decision about people and programs.
Microdebris Analysis from the Early Bronze Age Levels at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath
Microdebris are the tiny remnants of activities that are not cleaned up after an activity is completed (fig. 1). Such activities are often archaeologically invisible with standard macrolevel artifact collection and analysis techniques. If microdebris are systematically and spatially collected across surfaces and different depositional contexts, their analysis can help guide excavation strategies (identification where such debris is located, which…
Animal Food Production and Consumption in Stratum E5 at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath
Puppy Sacrifice and Cynophagy from Early Philistine Tel Miqne-Ekron Contextualized
The discovery of a sacrificed puppy at Tel Miqne-Ekron, a major Philistine settlement in Israel's southern coastal plain, highlights the role of dogs in Iron I Philistia. Though dog sacrifice is described in Hittite religious texts and attested in lands bordering the Aegean during the second–first millennia BCE, evidence for this practice, or even of dog bones, is largely absent from Late Bronze and non-Philistine Iron I (ca. 1550–1000 BCE) Levan…
Contextualised judgements
This study investigates assessment within oral academic assessment tasks, specifically focusing on the criteria used by discipline specialists and comparing them with those used to assess performance on TOEFL iBTTM speaking tasks. Three pairs of tutors from three faculties took part in verbal report sessions where they watched, rated and discussed the performances of ten native and ten non-native students completing first-year university oral ass…
Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan
Discussions on daily life in Early Bronze Age society in the southern Levant often focus on subsistence or ritual phenomena, while aspects relating to entertainment and leisure are rarely discussed. This paper presents evidence for gaming behaviour, in the form of game boards and game pieces, that were recovered in the excavations of the Early Bronze Age (early to mid-3rd millennium bce) residential neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. All…
Rhetorical relations in university students’ presentations
Psychology (9 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Bronze Age (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)