Roever2021
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Roever2021 |
| Author(s) | Carsten Roever, David Wei Dai |
| Title | Reconceptualising Interactional Competence for Language Testing |
| Editor(s) | M. Rafael Salaberry, Alfred Rue Burch |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Competence, Testing, Language Testing |
| Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
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| Pages | 23–49 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.21832/9781788923828-003 |
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| Book title | Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and its Applications |
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Abstract
There has recently been strong interest in the assessment of interactional competence (IC) as witnessed by a special issue of the journal Language Testing (Plough et al., 2018) devoted entirely to IC, a special issue on the employment of conversation analysis in assessing IC of the journal Papers in Language Testing Assessment (Youn & Burch, 2020) and the prominent role of IC assessment in the special issue of the journal Language Assessment Quarterly on speaking assessment (Lim, 2018). However, to this date no major language test assesses IC, and this chapter is intended to contribute to ending this lamentable state of aff airs. We will do so by discussing why the absence of IC assessment is problematic, why simply assessing profi ciency does not give information about test-takers’ IC, what particular challenges IC test designers face and how the IC construct can be broadened to incorporate social role enactment as a rating criterion via membership categorisation analysis (MCA).
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