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Evaluating Interactional Competence in Interview and Paired Discussion Tasks: A Rater Cognition Study
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Vo, Sonca – TESOL Journal, 2021
Studies of interaction in speaking assessment have highlighted problems regarding the unequal distribution of interaction patterns in different task types. However, little attempt has been made to include both verbal and nonverbal interaction features elicited in the tasks. Therefore, this study examined the elicitation of verbal and nonverbal…
Descriptors: Interviews, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication
Interactional Features of L2 Pragmatic Interaction in Role-Play Speaking Assessment
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Youn, Soo Jung – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
This study explicates the nature of second language (L2) pragmatic interaction focusing on the quantitative function of interactional features. A relationship between the fine-grained interactional features elicited from learners' role-play performances at varying levels and trained raters' scores was investigated. The corpus of 102 learners'…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Pragmatics, Speech Communication, Computational Linguistics
Effects of Task Types on Interactional Competence in Oral Communication Assessment
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Vo, Sonca Thanh – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Studies of interaction in speaking assessment have highlighted problems regarding the unequal distribution of interaction patterns in interviews versus paired formats (Van Lier, 1989; Young & He, 1998). These studies, however, only looked at verbal interaction features, and no attempts in these studies were made to investigate both verbal and…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Verbal Communication, Speech Communication, Speech Evaluation