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Comparing Language Use in Oral Proficiency Interviews to Target Domains: Conversational, Academic, and Professional Discourse
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Staples, Shelley; Laflair, Geoffrey T.; Egbert, Jesse – Modern Language Journal, 2017
Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) are widely used to measure speaking ability in a second or foreign language. The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) Speaking Test is an OPI used for academic and professional purposes around the world. However, little research on this or other OPIs has quantitatively compared test takers' speech…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Nurses
The Development and Validation of a Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview.
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Stansfield, Charles W.; Kenyon, Dorry Mann – Modern Language Journal, 1992
Reports on an alternative approach to the face-to-face interview for eliciting speech samples to evaluate second-language proficiency, discussing the reliability and validity of the Indonesian Speaking Test, an example of the tape-mediated simulated oral proficiency interview method. (18 references)(CB)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Indonesian, Interviews, Language Proficiency
Proficiency as a Framework for Research in Second Language Acquisition.
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Byrnes, Heidi – Modern Language Journal, 1987
Identifies some underlying assumptions about language, testing and its use, and second language acquisition (SLA) for those current on the issue of oral proficiency assessment. Suggests that even with its limitations, the assessment procedure can become a source of data for future SLA research. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Data Collection, Language Processing, Language Proficiency