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This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency assessment: the ways in which the language proficiency interview is accomplished through discourse.Contributors draw on a variety of discourse perspectives, including the ethnography of speaking, conversation analysis, language socialization theory, sociolinguistic variation theory, human interaction research, and systemic functional linguistics. And for the first time, LPIs conducted in German, Korean, and Spanish are examined as well as interviews in English.This book sheds light on such important issues as how speaking ability can be defined independently of an LPI that is designed to assess it and the extent to which an LPI is an authentic representation of ordinary conversation in the target language. It will be of considerable interest to language testers, discourse analysts, second language acquisition researchers, foreign language specialists, and anyone concerned with proficiency issues in language teaching and testing.

Language and languages --- Conversation --- Oral communication --- Language assessment --- Ability testing. --- Study and teaching --- Langage et langues --- Communication orale --- Ability testing --- Tests d'aptitude --- Colloquial language --- Etiquette --- Language and languages - Ability testing. --- Conversation - Ability testing. --- Oral communication - Ability testing.

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Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a copy of this book. The information, discussions, and reflections offered within the volume address major developments within the field over the past decades, enlivened by current ""takes"" on these issues. The real value of this collection, however, lies in its consideration of the past as a means of defining the future agenda of language testing.

Language and languages -- Ability testing. --- Language and languages -- Examinations -- Research. --- Language and languages -- Examinations. --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Language and languages --- Ability testing. --- Examinations. --- Examinations --- Research. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Foreign language testing --- Language testing --- Language assessment --- Langage et langues --- Examens --- Recherche. --- Examens. --- Tests d'aptitude. --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Study and teaching --- Language and languages -- Ability testing.. --- Language and languages -- Examinations.. --- education --- language studies --- language

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485.2 --- Didactics of languages --- Engels --- Language and languages --- Oral communication --- KVH-AND --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Foreign language testing --- Language testing --- Language assessment --- Ability testing --- Examinations --- Study and teaching --- Ability testing. --- Examinations. --- Langage et langues --- Communication orale --- Tests d'aptitude --- Examens --- #KVHA:Spreekvaardigheid; Engels --- #KVHA:Taalonderwijs; Engels --- Communicatie --- Mondeling --- 831.2 --- Language and languages - Ability testing. --- Language and languages - Examinations. --- Oral communication - Ability testing. --- Oral communication - Examinations. --- LANGUES VIVANTES --- COMMUNICATION ORALE --- ETUDE ET ENSEIGNEMENT --- EXAMENS, QUESTIONS, ETC. --- Langues --- Langues vivantes --- Étude et enseignement --- Examens, questions, etc. --- ÉTUDE ET ENSEIGNEMENT

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Language and languages --- Electronic data processing. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Punched card systems. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Codes for punched card systems --- Data processing --- Perforated card systems --- Punch-card systems --- Punched card systems --- Card system in business --- Computer input-output equipment --- Computer storage devices --- Indexing --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Tabulating machines --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- ADP (Data processing) --- Automatic data processing --- EDP (Data processing) --- IDP (Data processing) --- Integrated data processing --- Computers --- Office practice --- Ability testing --- Data processing. --- Study and teaching --- Business --- Automation --- Data centers --- Learner autonomy --- Language and languages - Ability testing - Data processing --- Language and languages - Study and teaching - Data processing