Testing Second Language Speaking

311 Pages·2003·9.276 MB·

by  Glenn Fulcher

Testing Second Language Speaking
APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE STUDY
GENERAL EDITOR
CHRISTOPHER N. CANDLIN
Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics
Department of English
Centre for English Language Education àf
Communication Research
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Testing Second
Language Speaking
GLENN FULCHER
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APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE STUDY
GENERAL EDITOR
CHRISTOPHER N. CANDLIN
Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics
Department of English
Centre for English Language Education &
Communication Research
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Error Analysis: An Introduction to Second Language
Perspective on Second Language Acquisition Research
Acquisition DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN
JACK C RICHARDS (ed.) and MICHAEL H LONG
Contrastive Analysis Process and Experience in the
CARL JAMES Language Classroom
MICHAEL LEGUTKE and
Language and Communication
HOWARD THOMAS
JACK C RICHARDS and
RICHARD W SCHMIDT (eds) Translation and Translating:
Theory and Practice
Reading in a Foreign Language
ROGER T BELL
J CHARLES ALDERSON and
A H URQUHART (eds) Language Awareness in the Classroom
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis CARL JAMES and
Second Edition PETER GARRETT (eds)
MALCOLM COULTHARD
Rediscovering Interlanguage
Bilingualism in Education: LARRY SELINKER
Aspects of Theory, Research and Practice
Language and Discrimination:
JIM CUMMINS and MERRILL SWAIN
A Study of Communication in
Second Language Grammar: Multi-ethnic Workplaces
Learning and Teaching CELIA ROBERTS, EVELYN DAVIES and
WILLIAM E RUTHERFORD TOM JUPP
Vocabulary and Language Teaching Analysing Genre:
RONALD CARTER and Language Use in Professional Settings
michael McCart hy VIJAY K BHATIA
The Classroom and the Language as Discourse:
Language Learner: Perspective for Language Teaching
Ethnography and Second-Language MICHAEL McCarthy and
Classroom Research RONALD CARTER
LEO VAN LIER
Second Language Learning:
Listening in Language Learning Theoretical Foundations
MICHAEL ROST MICHAEL SHARWOOD SMITH
Interaction in the Language Errors in Language Learning and Use:
Curriculum: Exploring Error Analysis
Awareness, Autonomy and Authenticity CARL JAMES
LEO VAN LIER
Translation into the Second Language
Phonology in English Language STUART CAMPBELL
Teaching:
Strategies in Learning and Using a
An International Language
Second Language
MARTHA C PENNINGTON
ANDREW D COHEN
Measuring Second Language Managing Evaluation and Innovation in
Performance
Language Teaching:
TIM McNAMARA Building Bridges
Literacy in Society PAULINE REA-DICKINS and
RUQAIYA HASAN and KEVIN P GERMAINE (eds)
GEOFF WILLIAMS (eds) Reading in a Second Language:
Process, Product and Practice
Theory and Practice of Writing:
An Applied Linguistic Perspective A H URQUHARD and C J WEIR
WILLIAM GRABE and ROBERT B KAPLAN Writing:
Texts, Processes and Practices
Autonomy and Independence in
CHRISTOPHER N CANDLIN and
Language Learning
PHIL BENSON and PETER VOLLER KEN HYLAND (eds)
(eds) Disciplinary Discourses:
Social Interactions in Academic Writing
Language, Literature and the Learner:
KEN HYLAND
Creative Classroom Practice
RONALD CARTER and JOHN McRAE Experiential Learning in Foreign
Language Education
(eds)
VILJO KOHONEN, RITTA JAATINEN,
Language and Development:
PAULI KAIKKONEN, JORMA LEHTOVAAR
Teachers in the Changing World
BRIAN KENNY and WILLIAM SAVAGE English as a Second Language in the
Mainstream:
(eds)
Teaching, Learning and Identity
Communication Strategies: BERNARD MOHAN, CONSTANT LEUNG
Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic and CHRISTINE DAVISON
Perspectives
Researching Pedagogic Tasks:
GABRIELE KASPER and ERIC KELLERMAN
Second Language Learning,
(eds)
Teaching and Testing
Teaching and Language Corpora MARTIN BYGATE, PETER SKEHAN
ANNE WICHMANN, STEVEN FLIGEL- and MERRILL SWAIN (eds)
STONE, TONY McENERY and GERRY
Learner Contributions to Language
KNOWLES (eds)
Learning:
Testing Second Language Speaking New Directions in Research
GLENN FULCHER MICHAEL BREEN
For my mother, Joan.
And to the memory of my father, Norman.
Without whom nothing would have been possible.
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Contents
List of tables and figures x
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xvi
List of abbreviations xx
1 The history of testing second language speaking 1
2 Defining the construct 18
3 Tasks for second language speaking tests 50
4 Rating scales 88
5 Test specifications 116
6 Raters, training and administration 138
7 Evaluating second language speaking tests 171
8 Researching second language speaking tests 199
Appendices 226
References 256
Index 277
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