Interviewing for Language Proficiency : Interaction and Interpretation

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...

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Main Author Ross, Steven J. (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319605289
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-60528-9
Physical DescriptionXXI, 296 p. 11 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Language Proficiency Interviews and the Assessment of Speaking
  • Chapter 2. Preliminary Talk and LPI Tasks
  • Chapter 3. The ILR Rating Scale and Rating Criteria
  • Chapter 4. Role Plays as Pragmatic Assessments
  • Chapter 5. Task Selection Strategies
  • Chapter 6.- Task Frames and Task Repairs
  • Chapter 7. Interviewer Accommodation in Tasks and Transitional Talk
  • Chapter 8. Co-Construction and its Limits
  • Chapter 9. Task Sequencing and Sampling on a Japanese LPI
  • Chapter 10. Rater Decision Consistency and Formative Feedback
  • Chapter 11. Measuring Growth in Speaking Proficiency
  • Chapter 12. Language Proficiency Interviews and Emerging Alternatives.

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