Interviewing for Language Proficiency : Interaction and Interpretation

• Main Author: Ross, Steven J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; English language.; Discourse analysis.; Multilingualism.; Language and education.; Language and languages > Study and teaching.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319605289
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60528-9
• Physical Description: XXI, 296 p. 11 illus. online resource.

This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades. Adopting a mixed-method perspective involving micro-analytic approaches, discourse analysis and quantitative methods such as multi-level modeling and event history analy...