Developing a rating scale for written intralinguistic mediation in a local context

Intralinguistic mediation as a task type offers testing bodies an opportunity to expand the test construct to include authentic ability for use test tasks and is of great relevance as a representation of English lingua franca usage in the higher education context. This study reports on the development of an analytic rating scale for one particular mediation task specification, that of facilitating communication in delicate situations and disagreements , which was co-constructed by raters based o