Assessing L2 listening : moving towards authenticity / / Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910493236403321
• Autore: Ockey Gary J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 pages)
• Collana: Language learning & language teaching (LL&LT), , 1569-9471 ; ; Volume 50
• Disciplina: 428.0071
• Soggetti: English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers; Second language acquisition; Listening comprehension; Listening - Ability testing; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An overview of the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts on L2 listening tests / Elvis Wagner and Gary J. Ockey -- A comparison of L2 listening performance on tests with scripted or authenticated spoken texts / Elvis Wagner -- Connected-speech dictations for testing listening / James Dean Brown and Jonathan Trace -- An overview of the issue of using different types of speech varieties as listening inputs in L2 listening assessment / Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner -- Reliability and sources of score variance in a strength of accent measure / Gary J. Ockey -- Listening to an unfamiliar accent: exploring difficulty, strategy use, and evidence of adaptation on listening assessment tasks / Luke Harding -- Different varieties of world Englishes : perceptual judgments and speech characteristics / Okim Kang and Megan Moran -- An overview of the use of audio-visual texts on L2 listening tests / Elvis Wagner and Gary J. Ockey -- Test takers' use of visual information in an L2 video-mediated listening test: evidence from cued retrospective reporting / Ruslan Suvorov -- Investigating the impact of nonverbal communication cues on listening item types / Aaron Olaf ; Batty -- An overview of interactive listening as part of the construct of interactive and integrated oral test tasks / Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner -- The degree to which it matters if an oral test task requires listening / Gary J. Ockey -- Investigating examiner interventions in relation to the listening demands they make on candidates in oral interview tests / Fumiyo Nakatsuhara -- A measurement model for listen-speak tasks / Ikkyu Choi and Youngsoon So.