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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Steven J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Subjects:
Applied Linguistics
Language And Languages—study And Teaching
English Language
Language Education
Language Teaching
Multilingualism
Discourse Analysis
Language And Education
English
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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