| Since funding was partial, I was unable to carry out the reseasch project
exactly as I planned. I was, for example, unable to go overseas to conduct
interviews with DELE representatives and official testers in Spain. My
project, therefore, was completely based on data collected from students
and teachers based in Japan. |
| In spite of the adjustments made, the results, nevertheless show interesting
findings. Scores obtained through the administration of the DELE exams
seem to show low reliability for Japanese candidates. In the future, I
would like to conduct a larger study to confirm or modify the findings
obtained in this study, preferably with the parficipafion of official testers
and teachers based overseas. |
| As in the past, the results of this study will be published in a forthcoming
issue of Academia. |
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