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Title Talking and testing : discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency / [edited by] Richard Young, Agnes Weiyun He.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 395 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; v. 14
Studies in bilingualism ; v. 14. 0928-1533
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Language profiency interviews : a discourse approach / Agnes Weiyun He and Richard Young -- Re-analyzing the OPI : how much does it look like natural conversation? / Marysia Johnson and Andrea Tyler -- Evaluating learner interactional skills : conversation at the micro level / Heidi Riggenbach -- What happens when there's no one to talk to? : Spanish foreign language discourse in simulated oral proficiency interviews / Dale April Koike -- Answering questions in LPIs : a case study / Agnes Weiyun He -- Framing the language proficiency interview as a speech event : native and non-native speakers' questions / Carol Lynn Moder and Gene B. Halleck -- Miscommunication in language proficiency interviews of first-year German students : a comparison with natural conversation / Maria M. Egbert -- Knowledge structures in oral proficiency interviews for international teaching assistants / Bernard Mohan -- The use of communication strategies in language proficiency interviews / Yumiko Yoshida-Morise -- Meaning negotiation in the Hungarian oral proficiency examination of English / Lucy Katona.
Maintaining American face in the Korean oral exam : reflections on the power of cross-cultural context / Catherine E. Davies -- Confirmation sequences as interactional resources in Korean language proficiency interviews / Kyu-hyun Kim and Kyung-hee Suh -- Divergent frame interpretations in oral proficiency interview interaction / Steven Ross -- "Let them eat cake!" or How toavoid losing your head in cross-cultural conversations / Richard Young and Gene B. Halleck.
Summary This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency assessment: the ways in which the language proficiency interview is accomplished through discourse. Contributors draw on a variety of discourse perspectives, including the ethnography of speaking, conversation analysis, language socialization theory, sociolinguistic variation theory, human interaction resea.
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Subject Language and languages -- Ability testing.
Language and languages -- Ability testing.
Conversation -- Ability testing.
Conversation -- Ability testing.
Oral communication -- Ability testing.
Oral communication -- Ability testing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Young, Richard, 1948-
He, Agnes Weiyun.
Other Form: Print version: Talking and testing. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1998 1556195486 (DLC) 98024277 (OCoLC)39235622
ISBN 9789027285546 (electronic book)
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