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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Oral proficiency interview"”.
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Topic development in the English oral proficiency interview for international teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… Teaching Assistant (ITA) candidate’s oral proficiency in an unscripted interview test. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had employed SPEAK (Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit), a computer-mediated test, to assess ITA candidates’ speaking ability for …
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Beyond the mere word. Exploring the language of Drama through text- and performance-based approaches for developing L2 oral skills
… full-scale performance for developing learners’ oral skills in terms of complexity, accuracy and fluency and their positive attitudes towards foreign language learning within a high school compulsory curriculum in an Italian context. The rationale for undertaking this investigation lies in the …
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The Effect of Dynamic Assessment on Adult Learners of Arabic: A Mixed-Method Study at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
… in tutoring settings. However, they did not use proficiency-based rubrics to measure students' progress and did not mention the method of using DA practically in classrooms. The literature showed that task-based language instruction (TBLI) is effective in adult classrooms. This study combined DA …
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Developing An Assessment Framework For Cultural Responsiveness Through A Japanese Program In A Southeastern University
… language fluency, the program adopted the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), however, no evaluation tool for cultural responsiveness was available. Therefore, in this study, the researcher created an assessment framework to evaluate students’ …
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Effect of the affordances of a virtual environment on second language oral proficiency
… a weekly conversation hour focusing on improving oral proficiency. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effect of two different types of conversation hours, face-to-face and virtual, on the oral proficiency levels of students enrolled in intermediate Spanish classes at …
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Investigating oral performance on controlled versus spontaneous speaking tasks: Implications for second language pedagogy and assessment
Assessment tasks of second language (L2) proficiency can be loosely classified into controlled and spontaneous tasks. While spontaneous tasks are widely accepted as authentic proficiency instruments, they can be time-consuming and labor-intensive to develop, administer, and score. In contrast, …
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Speaker Investment, Social Networks and Oral Proficiency of Heritage and Classroom Learners of Spanish
… 2018; Norton, 1995, 2010) in shaping the oral proficiency of heritage speakers and classroom learners of Spanish. My research questions are as follows: (1) What impact, if any, does the number of Spanish speakers in a speaker’s social network have on the oral proficiency of heritage and …