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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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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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This mixed methods study compared IELTS examiners’ scores when assessing spoken performances under live and two ‘non-live’ testing conditions using audio and video recordings. Six IELTS examiners assessed 36 test-takers’ performances under the live, audio, and video rating conditions. Scores in the three rating modes were calibrated using the many-facet Rasch model (MFRM). For all three modes, examiners provided written justifications for their ratings, and verbal reports were also collected to gain insights into examiner perceptions towards performance under the audio and video conditions. Results showed that, for all rating criteria, audio ratings were significantly lower than live and video ratings. Examiners noticed more negative performance features under the two non-live rating conditions, compared to the live condition. However, richer information about test-taker performance in the video mode appeared to cause raters to rely less on such negative evidence than audio raters when awarding scores. Verbal report data showed that having visual information in the video-rating mode helped examiners to understand what the test-takers were saying, to comprehend better what test-takers were communicating using non-verbal means, and to understand with greater confidence the source of test-takers’ hesitation, pauses, and awkwardness. ; This research was funded by the IELTS Partners: British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia, and Cambridge Assessment English under the IELTS Joint Funded Research Programme (Round 19). ; 18m embargo
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academic speaking; English language testing; language testing; oral test; speaking; Subject Categories::X162 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2020.1799222 http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624465
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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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