Meaning-based Scoring
A Systemic Functional Linguistics Model for Automated Test Tasks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9865032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesse Gleason (0000-0001-7980-4500, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 666-688 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hpn.2014.0115 |
| OpenAlex | W2113991915 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Communicative approaches to language teaching that emphasize the importance of speaking (e.g., task-based language teaching) require innovative and evidence-based means of assessing oral language. Nonetheless, research has yet to produce an adequate assessment model for oral language (Chun 2006; Downey et al. 2008). Limited by automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology, which compares non-native speaker discourse to native-like discourse, most tests exclusively focus on accuracy while ignoring how examinees use language to make meaning. In order to offer stakeholders more trustworthy evidence of how examinees might use language in target language domains, a model anchored in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is put forth. Specific examples are given of how SFL might be used to evaluate test task types, such as the story retell. Three examinees’ responses are contrasted using genre analysis (Derewianka 1990) and transitivity analysis (Ravelli 2000) in order to demonstrate elements in their linguistic profiles that ASR-based assessment would overlook. In so doing, implications are drawn regarding the potential of SFL models for enhancing automated scoring procedures by focusing on the meaning-form relations in the linguistic construction of narrative
Computational linguistics · Focus (optics) · Language assessment · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Narrative · Natural language processing · Systemic functional linguistics · Task (project management) · Test (biology) · Transitive relation · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology
Understanding the impact of teaching systemic functional grammar in initial English language teacher education
Enhancing the content- and language-integrated multiple literacies framework
SFL pedagogies in language education
The development of temporal-spatial meaning in personal recounts of beginning L2 writers of German
Introducing Functional Grammar
Genre and language learning
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English
A psycholinguistic approach to oral language assessment
Validating automated speaking tests
A functional approach to evaluating content knowledge and language development in ESL students’ science classification texts
Going beyond the Native Speaker in Language Teaching
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |