Format:
1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781783092291
Series Statement:
Second Language Acquisition v.78
Content:
This book brings together ideas on identifying and measuring second language proficiency. The chapters introduce a range of tools for the evaluation of learners' language level with respect to both productive and receptive skills and provide a variety of answers to the question of how to assess L2 proficiency in a valid, reliable and practical way
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 How to Assess L2 Proficiency ?An Overview of Proficiency Assessment Research -- Part 1 General Considerations for L2 Assessment -- 2 Oral Fluency and Spoken Proficiency: Considerations for Research and Testing -- 3 Multiple Assessments of Oral Proficiency: Evidence from a Collaborative Platform -- 4 Using Learner Corpora for Testing and Assessing L2 Proficiency -- Part 2 Language Processing and L2 Proficiency -- 5 Listening Comprehension: Processing Demands and Assessment Issues -- 6 A Psycholinguistic Measurement of Second Language Proficiency: The Coefficient of Variation -- 7 Evaluating the Workings of Bilingual Memory with a Translation Recognition Task -- Part 3 Focused Assessment Instruments -- 8 'Repeat as Much as You Can': Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Oral Proficiency in L2 French -- 9 Exploring the Acquisition of the French Subjunctive: Local Syntactic Context or Oral Proficiency? -- 10 Testing L2 Listening Proficiency: Reviewing Standardized Tests Within a Competence-Based Framework -- 11 Assessing Language Dominance with the Bilingual Language Profile -- Epilogue -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783092277
Additional Edition:
Print version Leclercq, Pascale Measuring L2 Proficiency : Perspectives from SLA Bristol : Channel View Publications,c2014 ISBN 9781783092277
Language:
English