Table 4.30. Level 2 miscue frequencies (severe only).

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Table 4.31. Ratio of small to large syntactic categories for SPEC (severe miscues).

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Table 4.32. Summary of coherence ratings (CR).

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Table 4.33. Statistics of coherence ratings (CR) for background turns.

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Table 4.34. Statistics of coherence ratings (CR) for focus turns.

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Table 4.35. Average coherence ratings for hypothesis set H3.

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Table 4.36. Average coherence ratings for hypothesis set H4.

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Table 4.37. Average coherence ratings for hypothesis set H5.

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Table 4.38. Average coherence ratings for hypothesis set H6.

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Table 5.1. IELTS band groupings.

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Table A1. Candidate data.

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Table A2. Turn rating exercise scales.

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Table A3. Level 1 miscue categories.

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