Measuring L2 proficiency : perspectives from SLA /: perspectives from SLA. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Pascale Leclercq, Amanda Edmonds and Heather Hilton.
• Editors: Leclercq, Pascale, 1977-; Edmonds, Amanda, 1979-; Hilton, Heather
• Contents: Acknowledgements ; Preface ; 1. Pascale Leclercq and Amanda Edmonds: How to Assess L2 Proficiency? An Overview of Proficiency Assessment Research ; Part I: General Considerations for L2 Assessment ; 2. Heather Hilton: Oral Fluency and Spoken Proficiency: Considerations for Research and Testing ; 3. John Osborne: Multiple Assessments of Oral Proficiency: Evidence from a Collaborative Platform. ; 4. Marcus Callies, Maria Belén Díez-Bedmar and Ekaterina Zaytseva: Using Learner Corpora for Testing and Assessing L2 Proficiency. ; Part II Language Processing and L2 Proficiency ; 5. Peter Prince: Listening Comprehension: Processing Demands and Assessment Issues ; 6. Carrie A. Ankerstein: A Psycholinguistic Measurement of Second Language Proficiency: The Coefficient of Variance ; 7. Dominique Bairstow, Jean-Marc Lavaur, Jannika Laxen and Xavier Aparicio: Evaluating the Workings of Bilingual Memory with a Translation Recognition Task ; Part III Focused Assessment Instruments ; 8. Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Kevin McManus, Lourdes Ortega and John Norris: “Repeat as much as you can”: Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Oral Proficiency in L2 French ; 9. Kevin McManus, Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Rosamond Mitchell, Laurence Richard and Patricia Romero de Mills: Exploring the Acquisition of the French Subjunctive: Local Syntactic Context or Oral Proficiency? ; 10. Naouel Zoghlami: Testing L2 Listening Proficiency: Reviewing Standardized tests within a Competence-Based Framework. ; 11. Libby M. Gertken, Mark Amengual and David Birdsong: Assessing Language Dominance with the Bilingual Language Profile ; Epilogue
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 401.93; EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; Second language acquisition -- Evaluation; Second language acquisition -- Research -- Methodology; Language and languages -- Research -- Methodology; Literacy -- Research -- Methodology; EDUCATION / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT); Teaching skills & techniques; EDUCATION
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783092307; 1783092300
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