Liberato Silva dos Santos is a doctoral candidate in applied linguistics and technology at Iowa State University. His dissertation investigates the scoring decision processes of raters judging the pronunciation of L2 English speakers in a paired discussion task. His work has been presented in conferences such as LTRC, LARC, TSLL, CALICO, TESOL International, BRAZ-TESOL, New Directions, and SEMAPLE.

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