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Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and its Applications: 149 (Second Language Acquisition) - Softcover

Book 151 of 179: Second Language Acquisition

M. Rafael Salaberry; Alfred Rue Burch

 
9781788923804: Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and its Applications: 149 (Second Language Acquisition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1788923804 ISBN 13: 9781788923804
Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2021

Synopsis

This edited volume investigates the nature and possible applications of an expanded and reconceptualized theoretical construct of speaking as a dynamic socially\-constructed endeavour. It addresses both theoretical perspectives and methodological procedures to define and circumscribe the assessment of contextualized speaking. The chapters focus on the complexity brought about by actual interactional competence in speaking tasks and discuss how testing and assessment models and practices can incorporate recent research findings on the inherently dynamic and situated nature of language use. The volume presents research on language assessment in a variety of languages other than English, including French, Chinese and Japanese. It also examines the role that embodied action (gaze, gesture, orientation to materials and texts in the environment) plays in assessment practices, an area that has heretofore remained under\-explored.<\/p>

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About the Author

M. Rafael Salaberry is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities at Rice University, USA. His research interests include second language acquisition and use, multilingualism, bilingual education, assessment and teaching methodology. Together with S. Kunitz, he is the co-editor of Teaching and Testing Interactional Competence: Bridging Theory and Practice (2019, Routledge).



Alfred Rue Burch is an Associate Professor at Kobe University, Japan. His research interests include conversation analysis, discursive psychology, second language acquisition and use, and task-based language teaching and testing.  

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Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1788923804
ISBN 13 
9781788923804
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
328
Editor
Salaberry, M. Rafael, Burch