The Stability of Oral Proficiency Assessment on the Oral Interview Testing Procedures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5081496 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elana Shohamy (0000-0003-3462-1588, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 527-540 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1983.tb00947.x |
| OpenAlex | W2144444035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 7 |
The paper first discusses the complexity of measuring oral proficiency in communicative situations. The difficulty is due to the large number of variables, linguistic and social, which interact with one another. It then reports on a study which examined the stability of the assessment of oral proficiency on the oral interview test. Students of Hebrew as a foreign language underwent four administrations of different versions of that test. The administrations differed from one another by the occasion, the interviewer, the speech style, and the topic. Results from the analysis indicated that the different speech style and topic significantly affected students' scores on these tests while the occasion and the interviewer did not. The correlational analysis between pairs of tests pointed to low reliability and lack of stability of the tests, especially when two variables (i.e., occasion and tester) interacted. The results call for use of caution when decisions about individuals are made based on administration of communicative tests, for a need to identify sources of error in communicative tests, and for drawing stringent guidelines for the use of such tests
Developmental psychology · Foreign language · Interview · Language assessment · Language proficiency · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Reliability (semiconductor) · Style (visual arts) · Test (biology) · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Language testing. Part 1
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Exploring gender and oral proficiency interview performance
Variable competence in second language acquisition
Evaluation standards for the assessment of alternative testing methods
What Does Language Testing Have to Offer
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The validity of direct versus semi- direct oral tests
An English language placement test
Authentic language tests
A multiple choice for language testers
Does the testing method make a difference? The case of reading comprehension
Learner acquaintanceship and oral proficiency test pair-task performance
The challenges of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test for second language students
Testing tasks
Deriving oral assessment scales across different tests and rater groups
Testing methods, testing consequences
Task difficulty in speaking tests
Using observation checklists to validate speaking-test tasks
What do tests of listening comprehension test? - A retrospection study of EFL test-takers performing a multiple-choice task
A many-facet Rasch analysis of the second language group oral discussion task
Interviewer variation and the co-construction of speaking proficiency
Using G-theory and Many-facet Rasch measurement in the development of performance assessments of the ESL speaking skills of immigrants
Interlocutor support in oral proficiency interviews
Interaction in the oral proficiency interview
Language testing part II
Te reo o te tai Tokerau
The Oral Proficiency Interview
Language Testing Priorities
Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing
Predicting Speaking Proficiency from Cloze Tests
Predicting Speaking Proficiency from Cloze Tests
Testing Language Proficiency
Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing
Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Setting
The Construct Validation of the Fsi Oral Interview1
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2022 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |