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What Should We Teach about the Spoken Language?

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McCarthy, Michael – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994

Examines what should be the oral component of a foreign language course. Structural, interactive, generic, and contextual constraints are discussed in terms of their implications for teaching. (32 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries

Assessor Accommodation in the V.C.E.Italian Oral Test.

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Cafarella, Caterina – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997

Investigates, within the context of the question-answer framework of a foreign language oral proficiency test, the interactive nature of spoken discourse between Canadian students and assessors when there is trouble in talk as perceived by the assessors, with a focus on how they accommodate to the students. The study has implications for rater…

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Evaluators, Foreign Countries