1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791514503321

Titolo

The Civil War, central U.S., 1862 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.], : Magellan Geographix, c1997

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 map)

Soggetti

Southern States Maps

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale cartografico a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910252720403321

Autore

Ross Steven J

Titolo

Interviewing for Language Proficiency : Interaction and Interpretation / / by Steven J. Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319605289

3319605283

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 296 p. 11 illus.)

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Applied linguistics

Linguistics - Methodology

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Multilingualism

Germanic languages

Applied Linguistics

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Language Education

Language Teaching and Learning

Germanic Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Language Proficiency Interviews and the Assessment of Speaking -- Chapter 2. Preliminary Talk and LPI Tasks -- Chapter 3. The ILR Rating Scale and Rating Criteria -- Chapter 4. Role Plays as Pragmatic Assessments -- Chapter 5. Task Selection Strategies -- Chapter 6.- Task Frames and Task Repairs -- Chapter 7. Interviewer Accommodation in Tasks and Transitional Talk -- Chapter 8. Co-Construction and its Limits -- Chapter 9. Task Sequencing and Sampling on a Japanese LPI -- Chapter 10. Rater Decision Consistency and Formative Feedback -- Chapter 11. Measuring Growth in Speaking Proficiency -- Chapter 12. Language Proficiency Interviews and Emerging Alternatives.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades. Adopting a mixed-method perspective involving micro-analytic approaches, discourse analysis and quantitative methods such as multi-level modeling and event history analysis, the author focuses on interaction and discourse processes common in language assessment interviews. This innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of language assessment, conversation and discourse analysts, as well as practitioners and providers of oral proficiency assessment. Steven J. Ross is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, USA.  He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, and was an Associate Editor of Language Learning 2011-2016.  He has been Director of Training for the Language Proficiency Interview at the Institute for International Business Communication in Tokyo, and has taught research methods and language assessment in Japan, Mexico, Australia, and the USA.  .