Interviewing for Language Proficiency
Interaction and Interpretation
Published on 18. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXI, 296 pages
978-3-319-86879-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 analysis, the author focuses on interaction and discourse processes common in language assessment interviews. This innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of language assessment, conversation and discourse analysts, as well as practitioners and providers of oral proficiency assessment.
More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 s/w Abbildungen
XXI, 296 p. 11 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-86879-0 (9783319868790)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-60528-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
Shipment within 10-15 days
Person
Steven J. Ross is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, USA. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, and was an Associate Editor of Language Learning 2011-2016. He has been Director of Training for the Language Proficiency Interview at the Institute for International Business Communication in Tokyo, and has taught research methods and language assessment in Japan, Mexico, Australia, and the USA.
Content
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.