Don’t Turn a Deaf Ear
A Case for Assessing Interactive Listening
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22870929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel M K Lam (0000-0003-3451-7158, University of Bedfordshire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 740-764 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/applin/amaa064 |
| OpenAlex | W3132125690 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 35 |
The reciprocal nature of spoken interaction means that participants constantly alternate between speaker and listener roles. However, listener or recipient actions—also known as interactive listening (IL)—are somewhat underrepresented in language tests. In conventional listening tests, they are not directly assessed. In speaking tests, they have often been overshadowed by an emphasis on production features or subsumed under broader constructs such as interactional competence. This article is an effort to represent the rich IL phenomena that can be found in peer interactive speaking assessments, where the candidate–candidate format and discussion task offer opportunities to elicit and assess IL. Taking a close look at candidate discourse and nonverbal actions through a conversation analytic approach, the analysis focuses on three IL features (i) listenership displays, (ii) contingent responses, and (iii) collaborative completions, and unpacks their relative strength in evidencing listener understanding. This article concludes by making a case for revisiting the role of IL, calling for more explicit inclusion of IL in L2 assessment as well as pedagogy.
Active listening · Cognitive psychology · Competence (human resources) · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Inclusion (mineral) · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Nonverbal communication · Reciprocal · Turn-taking · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Developing and assessing second language listening and speaking
Is the devil you know better? Testwiseness and eliciting evidence of interactional competence in familiar versus unfamiliar triadic speaking tasks
Discourse Analysis in Language Assessment
On the Promise of Using Membership Categorization Analysis to Investigate Interactional Competence
Listening beyond comprehension
Oral placement tests at an English language school
On the development of interactional competence in L2 French
Human or Machine? Evaluating Second Language Speaking Performance in Paired Discussions with a Large Language Model-Driven Spoken Dialogue System vs. a Human Interlocutor
Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions
Chatbot Versus Human Peer
Assessing Interactional Competence in a Digital Era
Toward a Socio‐Cognitive Framework for Validating L2 Listening Classroom Assessment
A Longitudinal Case Study of L2 Interactional Competence Development in the ELT Classroom
Collaborative Accomplishment of L2 Peer Feedback Interaction
Building a corpus of digitally mediated EMI classroom interactions
Assessment of Interactional Competence in L2 German
I agree but’
The effect of instruction on the development of L2 interactional competence
Strategy use in a spoken dialog system–delivered paired discussion task
The Salience and Function of Nonverbal Behavior in L2 Speech Evaluations
Exploring the Potential of Conversational AI for Assessing Second Language Oral Proficiency
Human‐ versus artificial intelligence‐delivered roleplay tasks for assessing interactional competence
Listenership always matters
Structures of Social Action
Doing Conversation Analysis
The Handbook of Conversation Analysis
When Listeners Talk
L2 Interactional Competence and Development
Interactional Competence
Collaborative turn sequences
Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction
Conversation Analysis
Lectures on Conversation
Sequence Organization in Interaction
The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation
Interactional Competence across Proficiency Levels
L2 Interactional Competence as Increased Ability for Context-sensitive Conduct
Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction
Test Review
Listener response as a facet of interactional competence
Speaking in turns and sequences
What counts as “responding”? Contingency on previous speaker contribution as a feature of interactional competence
Interactional competence
Displaying Substantive Recipiency in Seminar Discussion
Active Listening
Concurrent operations on talk
Gesture and coparticipation in the activity of searching for a word
Opening up Closings
Understanding as an embodied, situated and sequential achievement in interaction
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |