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

• VerfasserIn: Ockey, Gary J.,; Wagner, Elvis,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wagner, Elvis,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Language learning & language teaching (LL<), Volume 50
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 pages).

Table of Contents

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.