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Testing ESL Pragmatics - Development and Validation of a Web-based Assessment Battery (Paperback): Carsten Rover Testing ESL Pragmatics - Development and Validation of a Web-based Assessment Battery (Paperback)
Carsten Rover; Edited by Rudiger Grotjahn, Gunther Sigott
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although second language learners' pragmatic competence (their ability to use language in context) is an essential part of their general communicative competence, it has not been a part of second language tests. This book helps fill this gap by describing the development and validation of a web-based test of ESL pragmalinguistics. The instrument assesses learners' knowledge of routine formulae, speech acts, and implicature in 36 multiple-choice and brief-response items. The test's quantitative and qualitative validation with 300 learners showed high reliability and provided strong evidence of the instrument's construct validity. Its web-based format makes it easy to administer and score. The book ends with a discussion of future research directions in assessing second language pragmatics.

Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building (Paperback, New edition): G abor Szab o, Rudiger Grotjan,... Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building (Paperback, New edition)
G abor Szab o, Rudiger Grotjan, Gunther Sigott
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Item Response Theory, though it has become a widely recognized tool in language testing research, is still not used frequently in practical language assessment projects. This book intends to provide a theoretical overview as well as to give practical guidance concerning the application of IRT in item bank building in a language testing context by presenting a particular project in a higher education setting.

Strategic Competence and EFL Reading Test Performance - A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (Paperback): Aek Phakiti,... Strategic Competence and EFL Reading Test Performance - A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (Paperback)
Aek Phakiti, Gunther Sigott, Rudiger Grotjan
R1,626 Discovery Miles 16 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Strategic competence (a higher-order executive ability that executes strategies for language use) has long been theorized as a significant non-linguistic factor affecting second language (L2) communicative ability. Despite its recognition, the parameters of strategic competence have been poorly defined and researched. Utilizing the multitrait-multimethod approach, this book examines the relationships of general strategic knowledge and strategic regulation in a specific high-stakes, test-taking context to English as a foreign language (EFL) reading test performance over time through the use of a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. Since it is large-scale and longitudinal in nature, this research provides an opportunity to generalize the unfolding nature of strategic competence. The book concludes by proposing multidimensional models to assist researching strategic competence and by discussing pedagogical models for strategic reading instruction.

Language Testing in Austria: Taking Stock / Sprachtesten in Oesterreich: Eine Bestandsaufnahme (English, German, Hardcover, New... Language Testing in Austria: Taking Stock / Sprachtesten in Oesterreich: Eine Bestandsaufnahme (English, German, Hardcover, New edition)
Gunther Sigott
R2,709 R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Save R1,536 (57%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book marks ten years of language test development and language testing research in Austria. Part I describes the development of large-scale tests at all levels of the educational system. The documentation covers German as the language of instruction for the majority of pupils, the so-called modern foreign languages English, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as the classical languages Latin and Ancient Greek. Part II brings together a considerable body of research which has been conducted in the course and the wake of the development and implementation of the new assessment philosophy during the past ten years. The studies are accommodated in a framework of test validation, which could serve as orientation for future research in language testing in Austria. Das Buch blickt auf zehn Jahre professioneller Testentwicklung und Sprachtestforschung in OEsterreich zuruck. Teil I beschreibt die Entwicklung von Testsystemen auf allen Ebenen des Bildungssystems. Die Dokumentation umfasst Deutsch, das fur die grosse Mehrheit Unterrichtssprache ist, die sogenannten modernen Fremdsprachen Englisch, Franzoesisch, Italienisch und Spanisch sowie die klassischen Sprachen Latein und Altgriechisch. Teil II umfasst eine beachtliche Anzahl von Untersuchungen, die wahrend und nach der Entwicklung und Implementierung der neuen Prufungsphilosophie in den letzten zehn Jahren durchgefuhrt wurden. Die Untersuchungen werden in ein Validierungskonzept eingeordnet, das als Orientierung fur zukunftige Sprachtestforschung in OEsterreich dienen koennte.

Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of Efl Learners (Paperback, illustrated edition): Jianda Liu, Rudiger Grotjahn,... Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of Efl Learners (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Jianda Liu, Rudiger Grotjahn, Gunther Sigott; Edited by Rudiger Grotjahn, Gunther Sigott
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Out of stock

Pragmatic competence is an integral and indispensable component of overall language competence. Omitting the pragmatic dimension from language assessment is, therefore, quite unfortunate. This book describes the development and validation of three test methods designed to test the interlanguage pragmatic knowledge of EFL learners. Altogether 413 subjects participated in the development of the tests. Results showed that all three methods investigated had measured learners' inter-language pragmatic knowledge. Quantitative analyses showed that the tests tapped the intended construct and the test methods measured a similar construct. Analyses of verbal reports yielded results which supported the quantitative analyses and revealed that the construct-relevant knowledge was involved in the test takers' cognitive activities. This book ends with some pedagogical implications of this study and directions for further research.

Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews (Paperback, illustrated edition): Annie Brown Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Annie Brown; Edited by Rudiger Grotjahn, Gunther Sigott
R1,615 Discovery Miles 16 150 Out of stock

This book was the winner of the 2005 Jacqueline A. Ross Dissertation Award for second or foreign language testing. The assessment of speaking skills is an important part of the language learning process, whether carried out by teachers in the classroom or through proficiency tests administered by testing agencies. However, the complex and subjective nature of speaking assessment raises a number of important questions about the validity, reliability and fairness of test procedures. This book, which is based on research into the speaking test of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), shows how the performance of learners in oral proficiency interviews cannot be taken unequivocally as an indication of their ability, as variation in interviewer behaviour can have an impact both on learner performance and on ratings outcomes.

Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance (Paperback): Vivian Berry, Rudiger Grotjahn, Gunther Sigott Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance (Paperback)
Vivian Berry, Rudiger Grotjahn, Gunther Sigott
R1,473 Discovery Miles 14 730 Out of stock

The book examines how individual differences in candidates' levels of extraversion interact with facets which have been shown to affect scores obtained on oral performance tests. Three major studies are presented: the first is concerned with the individual candidate in the model; the second study investigates the role of the rater in the oral test process; the final study is concerned with the degree of interactivity required of pairs of candidates, each of whom also acts as an interlocutor in the performance of an oral test task. Results of the studies confirm that when an appropriate instrument is used to assess personality, and when theoretically sound hypotheses derived from the psychological literature are tested, significant differences can be observed in the responses of introverts and extraverts on particular oral test tasks.

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