TY - JOUR

T1 - Performance-based Speaking Tests

T2 - Possibilities in Local Language Testing

AU - Dimova, Slobodanka

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Drawing on Glenn Fulcher’s extensive work in performance-based language assessment of speaking, this paper explores the assessment of L2 speaking ability in local language testing contexts. For that purpose, I review Fulcher’s influential work that highlights the relationship between the speaking construct, the task, the performance, and the scale, and I provide an overview of various task types, approaches to scale development, and rater-training programs. Then, I argue that local language testing provides a wide range of possibilities for task development, scale design, and rater training due to the opportunity for collaboration with local expertise (students, instructors, policy-makers) and the ability to keep up with the evolving speaking construct in the local context.

AB - Drawing on Glenn Fulcher’s extensive work in performance-based language assessment of speaking, this paper explores the assessment of L2 speaking ability in local language testing contexts. For that purpose, I review Fulcher’s influential work that highlights the relationship between the speaking construct, the task, the performance, and the scale, and I provide an overview of various task types, approaches to scale development, and rater-training programs. Then, I argue that local language testing provides a wide range of possibilities for task development, scale design, and rater training due to the opportunity for collaboration with local expertise (students, instructors, policy-makers) and the ability to keep up with the evolving speaking construct in the local context.

U2 - 10.32038/ltrq.2022.29.08?vId=447&aId=523

DO - 10.32038/ltrq.2022.29.08?vId=447&aId=523

M3 - Journal article

VL - 29

SP - 120

EP - 133

JO - Language Teaching Research Quarterly

JF - Language Teaching Research Quarterly

SN - 2667-6753

ER -