) ALSO SHARES THIS VIEW, MAINTAINING THAT THAT READERS THERE WERE...

410]) also shares this view, maintaining that

that readers there were educated ones. And the

“judgments of accuracy, sociolinguistic

information about education background of the

appropriacy, socio-cultural savvy, discourse

general readers proved it right. Most of the

conventions, and so on, can only be made by

general readers were students from a variety of

reference to the norms of the native speaker

universities in Hanoi, and some of them were

culture(s)”.

staff working for different enterprises in Hanoi.

Every method has its advantages and

disadvantages. In this study, the advantages of

In short, in this study, the participation of

The second version of MDCT includes only

different groups of educated native respondents

sentences in Vietnamese, with those in English

in the MDCT was intended for a variety of

being removed. Thus, each item in the MDCT

responses.

of the second version contains only two options

A and B (see Appendix). The second version