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Language testers have generally come to recognize the limitations of traditional statistical methods for validating oral language tests. They have begun to consider more innovative approaches to test validation, approaches that promise to illuminate the assessment process itself, rather than just assessment outcomes (i.e., ratings). One such approach is conversation analysis (or CA), a rigorous empirical methodology developed by sociologists, which employs inductive methods in order to discover and describe the recurrent, systematic properties of conversation, including sequential organization, turntaking, repair, preference structure, and topic management. CA offers a systematic approach for analyzing spoken interaction from a qualitative perspective, allowing one to make observations about a stretch of talk while at the same time interacting with it. This book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework and a fuller understanding of what is entailed in using conversation analysis in the specific context of oral language test validation.
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This book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework.
Language testers have generally come to recognize the limitations of traditional statistical methods for validating oral language tests. They have begun to consider more innovative approaches to test validation, approaches that promise to illuminate the assessment process itself, rather than just assessment outcomes (i.e., ratings). One such approach is conversation analysis (or CA), a rigorous empirical methodology developed by sociologists, which employs inductive methods in order to discover and describe the recurrent, systematic properties of conversation, including sequential organization, turntaking, repair, preference structure, and topic management. CA offers a systematic approach for analyzing spoken interaction from a qualitative perspective, allowing one to make observations about a stretch of talk while at the same time interacting with it. This book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework and a fuller understanding of what is entailed in using conversation analysis in the specific context of oral language test validation.
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This book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework.
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From its historical roots in the United Kingdom in 1913, and later in 1930 in the United States, the testing of English for speakers of other languages has become what we think of as modern language testing today (see Spolsky 1990, 1995 for a detailed examination of this topic). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monologic data, speaking test data, interlocutor frame, interlocutor behaviour, oral language assessment, examiner behaviour, language proficiency interviews, interlocutor interviews, audiotaped data, analyzing single cases, paired format, language testers, standardization video, qualitative discourse analysis, candidate behaviour, language proficiency assessment, oral proficiency interview, international teaching assistants, oral examiners, institutional talk, language testing, test discourse, speaking tests, candidate output, repair initiation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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From its historical roots in the United Kingdom in 1913, and later in 1930 in the United States, the testing of English for speakers of other languages has become what we think of as modern language testing today (see Spolsky 1990, 1995 for a detailed examination of this topic). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monologic data, speaking test data, interlocutor frame, interlocutor behaviour, oral language assessment, examiner behaviour, language proficiency interviews, interlocutor interviews, audiotaped data, analyzing single cases, paired format, language testers, standardization video, qualitative discourse analysis, candidate behaviour, language proficiency assessment, oral proficiency interview, international teaching assistants, oral examiners, institutional talk, language testing, test discourse, speaking tests, candidate output, repair initiation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
President of the United States, Team Leaders, Oral Examiner, Advanced English, First Certificate, Key English Test New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Conversation Analysis (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series) by Dr Paul Drew on 10 pages
- Structures of Social Action (Studies in Conversation Analysis) by J. Maxwell Atkinson on 8 pages
- Talking and Testing: Discourse Approaches to the Assessment of Oral Proficiency by Richard Young on 7 pages
- Interaction and Grammar (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) by Elinor Ochs on 5 pages
- Conversational Organization and Its Development (Advances in Discourse Processes, Vol 38) by Bruce Dorval on 5 pages
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- European Language Testing in a Global Context: Proceedings of the ALTE Barcelona Conference July 2001 (Studies in Language Testing) by University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate on page 69
- Impact Theory and Practice: Studies of the IELTS test and Progetto Lingue 2000 (Studies in Language Testing) by Roger Hawkey in Front Matter
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