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( 1995.

) [ 2] A lderson, J. C. Do corpora hav e a ro le in languag e assess-

m ent? [ A ]. In Jenny Thom as & M ick Short eds. U sing

Corpora in L anguage R esearch[ C]. :
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[ 1] A lderson, J. C. et a.l L anguage T esting Construction and
, 2005.
Eva luation[ M ]. C ambr idg e: Cam bridge U niversity P ress,

U s ing Corpus in D esign ing and V a lidating Testing Procedures

1 2
ZOU Shen , YANG R en-m ing
( 1. School of Eng lish, Shanghai Internat io na l Stud ie s Un iv ersity, Shanghai 200083, Ch in a;
2. Schoo l of Fo reign L anguages, Shanghai Second Po lytechn ic Un iv ersity, Shanghai 201209, Ch in a)
Abstract: Corpus is play in g an ever increasing ly im portant ro le in language research and pedagog ic research. Sim -i
larly, m o re and m ore im portance is be ing attached to th e potential use of corpus in language testing. The paper attem pts
to explore the ro le of corpus in content validation of the Proofread in g Part in T est for Eng lish M a jo rs( TEM 8). Resu lts
have shown that the use of corpus can facilitate our effo rts to im prove item w rit ing and thus conten t validity. Severa l sug-
gest io ns are m ade in the end for possible uses o f corpus in test construct io n.
K ey w ord s: Corpus; C onten t Va lid ity /Va lid atio n; T esting P rocedure

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