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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
Interaction with an Edu-Game: A Detailed Analysis of Student Emotions and Judges' Perceptions
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Conati, Cristina; Gutica, Mirela – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
We present the results of a study that explored the emotions experienced by students during interaction with an educational game for math (Heroes of Math Island). Starting from emotion frameworks in affective computing and education, we considered a larger set of emotions than in related research. For emotion labeling, we started from a standard…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Emotional Response, Evaluators, Interrater Reliability
Explaining Teacher-Student Interactions in Early Childhood: An Interpersonal Theoretical Approach
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Thijs, Jochem; Koomen, Helma; Roorda, Debora; ten Hagen, Judith – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2011
The present study used an interpersonal theoretical perspective to examine the interactions between Dutch teachers and kindergartners. Interpersonal theory provides explanations for dyadic interaction behaviors by stating that complementary behaviors (dissimilar in terms of control, and similar in terms of affiliation) elicit and sustain each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods
Moral Knowledge and Responsibilities in Evaluation Implementation: When Critical Theory and Responsive Evaluation Collide
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Freeman, Melissa; Preissle, Judith; Havick, Steven – New Directions for Evaluation, 2010
An external evaluation documented what occurred in an inaugural summer camp to teach high school students how to preserve religious freedom by learning about and acting on the history and current state of church-state separation and other first amendment issues. Camp designers hoped to promote religious diversity values and civic engagement in…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Summer Programs, Resident Camp Programs, Religious Factors
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