Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and its Applications

Published by Multilingual Matters 2021

Assessing Speaking in Context

Expanding the Construct and its Applications

Edited by: M. Rafael Salaberry and Alfred Rue Burch

Volume 149 in the series Second Language Acquisition

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788923828

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Contents

About this book

This book takes a critical perspective of research on assessing speaking in second and foreign languages. Chapters focus on the complexity brought about by actual interactional competence in speaking tasks and discuss how testing and assessment models and practices can incorporate recent research on the dynamic and situated nature of language use.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part 1 Conceptual and Theoretical Issues
1 Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and the Applications M. Rafael Salaberry and Alfred Rue Burch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 Reconceptualising Interactional Competence for Language Testing Carsten Roever and David Wei Dai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3 A Case for Nonverbal Behavior: Implications for Construct, Performance and Assessment India Plough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Part 2 Collecting and Rating Speaking Data
4 Task Instruction in OPI Roleplays Alfred Rue Burch and Gabriele Kasper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5 Investigating Raters’ Scoring Processes and Strategies in Paired Speaking Assessment Soo Jung Youn and Shi Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6 Rating and Reflecting: Displaying Rater Identities in Collegial L2 English Oral Assessment Erica Sandlund and Pia Sundqvist Open Access Download PDF	132
Part 3 Designing Speaking Assessment Tests
7 Jiazhou? Is It California? Operationalizing Repair in Classroom-based Assessment Katharina Kley, Silvia Kunitz and Meng Yeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
8 Observing and Assessing Interactional Competence in Dynamic Strategic Interaction Scenarios Rémi A. van Compernolle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
9 Using Social Deduction Board Games to Assess and Strengthen Interactional Competence in ESL Learners Shane Dunkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
10 Assessing Interactional Competence in Secondary Schools: Issues of Turn-taking Dagmar Barth-Weingarten and Britta Freitag-Hild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Part 4 Using New Technologies to Assess Speaking
11 Design and Implementation of a Classroom-based Virtual Reality Assessment Jayoung Song and Wei-Li Hsu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
12 Operationalising Interactional Competence in Computer-mediated Speaking Tests Noriko Iwashita, Lyn May and Paul J. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
13 Assessing Speaking in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Look Towards the Future M. Rafael Salaberry and Alfred Rue Burch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Language acquisition; LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT)

eBook

Published: August 5, 2021
ISBN: 9781788923828