Challenges and Innovations in Speaking Assessment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Davis, Larry; Norris, John M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a sample of key Educational Testing Service (ETS) research and development efforts related to speaking assessment over the years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351782197
• Artikelnr.: 72273240

Autorenporträt

Larry Davis is Research Director at ETS, USA. John M. Norris is Principal Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors

Series Editors' Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Assessing second language speaking at ETS: Introduction (John M. Norris & Larry Davis)

Part 1: ETS speaking tests from the 1970s through the 1990s

Chapter 2: Historical perspectives on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview: ETS contributions (Judith Liskin-Gasparro)

Chapter 3: The TOEFL Test of Spoken English and the Genesis of an ETS Approach to Speaking Assessment (Larry Davis)

Part 2: Design and operation of large-scale speaking tests

Chapter 4: Validity considerations for testing speaking in the workplace: The TOEIC Speaking test (Jonathan Schmidgall)

Chapter 5: Speaking test tasks for young language learners: Development and validation (Edward P. Getman)

Chapter 6: Large-scale human scoring of speaking (Cathy Wendler, Nancy Glazer, & Jeffrey Bard)

Chapter 7: Use of formulaic language in TOEFL iBT speaking responses: Implications for scoring (Xiaoming Xi, Pam Mollaun, & Larry Davis)

Part 3: Innovations in speaking constructs, tasks, and technologies

Chapter 8: Pragmatically speaking: Contexts, forms, and functions in L2 speaking assessment (Veronika Timpe-Laughlin)

Chapter 9: The use of video in integrated speaking tasks: Test-taker perceptions and task performance (Ching-Ni Hsieh, Larry Davis, Yuan Wang, Pam Mollaun, & Jonathan Schmidgall)

Chapter 10: Aligning machine-generated feedback on speaking performance with human judgments: Some initial explorations (Lin Gu, Pam Mollaun, Jeremy Lee, Yuan Wang, Fred Tstutagawa, Saerhim Oh, Jorge Luis Beltrán Zúñiga)

Index