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Validation of a large-scale task-based test: functional progression in dialogic speaking performance ; Task-based language teaching and assessment: Contemporary reflections from across the world
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The design and validation of an online speaking test for young learners in Uruguay: challenges and innovations
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Towards new avenues for the IELTS Speaking Test: insights from examiners’ voices
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Video-conferencing speaking tests: do they measure the same construct as face-to-face tests?
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The effects of extended planning time on candidates’ performance, processes and strategy use in the lecture listening-into-speaking tasks of the TOEFL iBT Test
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This study investigated the effects of two different planning time conditions (i.e., operational [20 s] and extended length [90 s]) for the lecture listening-into-speaking tasks of the TOEFL iBT® test for candidates at different proficiency levels. Seventy international students based in universities and language schools in the United Kingdom (35 at a lower level; 35 at a higher level) participated in the study. The effects of different lengths of planning time were examined in terms of (a) the scores given by ETS-certified raters; (b) the quality of the speaking performances characterized by accurately reproduced idea units and the measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency; and (c) self-reported use of cognitive and metacognitive processes and strategies during listening, planning, and speaking. The results found neither a statistically significant main effect of the length of planning time nor an interaction between planning time and proficiency on the scores or on the quality of the speaking performance. There were several cognitive and metacognitive processes and strategies where significantly more engagement was reported under the extended planning time, which suggests enhanced cognitive validity of the task. However, the increased engagement in planning did not lead to any measurable improvement in the score. Therefore, in the interest of practicality, the results of this study provide justifications for the operational length of planning time for the lecture listening-into-speaking tasks in the speaking section of the TOEFL iBT test. ; TOEFL Committee of Examiners Grant 2017 ; version attached is copyright Educational Testing Service, since full text not required for report types, have not chased for accepted version RVO 25/11/21
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English language assessment; integrated tasks; speaking; Subject Categories::X162 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10547/625253 https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12322
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Exploring the potential for assessing interactional and pragmatic competence in semi-direct speaking tests
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Task parallelness: investigating the difficulty of two spoken narrative tasks
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Comparing rating modes: analysing live, audio, and video ratings of IELTS Speaking Test performances
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Investigating the use of language functions for validating speaking test specifications
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Exploring the use of video-conferencing technology to deliver the IELTS Speaking Test: Phase 3 technical trial
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The IELTS Speaking Test: what can we learn from examiner voices?
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Academic speaking: does the construct exist, and if so, how do we test it?
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Exploring the use of video-conferencing technology in the assessment of spoken language: a mixed-methods study
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Developing rubrics to assess the reading-into-writing skills: a case study
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Exploring performance across two delivery modes for the same L2 speaking test: face-to-face and video-conferencing delivery: a preliminary comparison of test-taker and examiner behaviour
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Exploring performance across two delivery modes for the IELTS Speaking Test: face-to-face and video-conferencing delivery (Phase 2)
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Accuracy across proficiency levels: A learner corpus approach. Jennifer Thewissen. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Lougain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2015). 342pp.
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A comparative study of the variables used to measure syntactic complexity and accuracy in task-based research
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