Interacting in pairs in a test of oral proficiency: Co-constructing a better performance

By Lindsay Brooks. 2009

171 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Language and Linguistics

1. Lyn May
2. L. Taylor
3. E. Galaczi
4. F. Scott Davidson
5. J. Kemp
6. Glenn Fulcher
7. Daniel M. K. Lam
8. S. Youn

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Lyn May
2. L. Taylor
3. Glenn Fulcher
4. E. Galaczi
5. F. Scott Davidson
6. J. Kemp
7. Daniel M. K. Lam
8. S. Youn

Citations in the corpus

• Interactional Competence in a Paired Speaking Test: Features Salient to Raters (2011, background): “The co-construction of the interaction by candidates in a paired speaking test has been shown to have the potential to elicit a wide range of interactional competencies, including conversational management skills, initiating and ending topics, requesting clarification, and challenging an interlocuto”
• Interactional Competence: Conceptualisations, Operationalisations, and Outstanding Questions (2018, background): “…of learner performance with a broader range of speech functions (ffrench, 2003; Galaczi & ffrench, 2011) and provide more opportunities for test takers to display conversational management skills (Brooks, 2009; Gan, Davison, & Hamp-Lyons, 2009; Kormos, 1999; O ’ Sullivan, Weir, & Saville, 2002).”
• What counts as “responding”? Contingency on previous speaker contribution as a feature of interactional competence (2018, unknown): “…write about paired/group speaking assessments almost invariably reference or contribute empirical evidence to the co-constructed nature of IC (e.g. Brooks, 2009; Brown, 2003; Galaczi, 2008; Gan, 2010; Gan, Davidson, & Hamp-Lyons, 2008; May, 2009, 2011; Nakatsuhara, 2013; Nitta & Nakatsuhara,…”
• Effective rating scale development for speaking tests: Performance decision trees (2011, background): “…of context and interaction in the assessment of speaking has been widely demonstrated (Kramsch, 1986; Jacoby and McNamara, 1999; Jacoby and Ochs, 1995), and the socially constructed nature of discourse has become the focus of much research (Swain, 2001; Chalhoub-Deville, 2003; Brooks, 2009).”