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An Interview with APPLE Lecture Speaker Professor Alister Cumming
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Strategic Competence and L2 Speaking Assessment ...
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Assessing second language speaking has long been an important part of language testing in both large-scale assessment settings and in smaller scale classroom-based assessments. Accordingly, researchers in the second language (L2) assessment field have made efforts to establish a better understanding of the nature of speaking ability and its underlying competences. With speaking tests increasingly involving test takers’ performances on certain tasks, test takers are required to utilize their language knowledge by means of their strategic competence (i.e., skills necessary to put language knowledge into use), which has been considered an integral component of communicative language ability (e.g., Bachman & Palmer, 1996) and L2 speaking ability (e.g., Bygate, 1987; Fulcher, 2003). However, what strategic competence in speaking entails remains unclear, as its definition has varied greatly across different theoretical models and empirical studies. This paper provides a brief overview of the varying approaches ...
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Applied linguistics; Communicative competence; Education; English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; Second language acquisition--Ability testing
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URL: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8542N68 https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8542n68
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The Teacher’s Role in Classroom-based Language Assessment ...
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