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Talking, tuning in and noticing: Exploring the benefits of output in task-based peer interaction
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A comparison of learners' and teachers' attitudes toward communicative language teaching at two universities in Vietnam
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Patterns of corrective feedback in a task-based adult EFL classroom setting in China
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Cross-linguistic influence as a factor in the written and oral production of school age learners of Japanese in Australia
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Effects of learner background on the development of writing skills in Japanese as a second language ; Effects of learner background on the development of writing skills in JSL
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Effects of learner background on the development of writing skills in Japanese as a second language
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Assessed Levels of Second Language Speaking Proficiency: How Distinct?
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Assessed Levels of Second Language Speaking Proficiency: How Distinct?
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Abstract:
The study reported in this paper is an investigation of the nature of speaking proficiency in English as a second language in the context of a larger project to develop a rating scale for a new international test of English for Academic Purposes, TOEFL iBT (Brown et al . 2005). We report on a large-scale study of the relationship between detailed features of the spoken language produced by test-takers and holistic scores awarded by raters to these performances. Spoken test performances representing five different tasks and five different proficiency levels (200 performances in all) were analyzed using a range of measures of grammatical accuracy and complexity, vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency. The results showed that features from each category helped distinguish overall levels of performance, with particular features of vocabulary and fluency having the strongest impact. Overall, the study contributes important insights into the nature of spoken proficiency as it develops and can be measured in rating scales for speaking, and has implications for methodological issues of the appropriateness of the use in language testing research contexts of measures developed in research on second language acquisition.
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URL: http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/amm017v1 https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amm017
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Syntactic complexity measures and their relation to oral proficiency in Japanese as a foreign language
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Comprehensible output in NNS-NNS interaction in Japanese as a foreign language
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Negative feedback and positive evidence in task-based interaction: Differential affects on L2 development
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