In:Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency
Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He
[Studies in Bilingualism 14] 1998
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 15 July 1998
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.14.toc
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Table of contents
1. Language Proficiency Interviews and Conversation
Re-analyzing the OPI: How Much Does It Look Like Natural Conversation?27
What Happens When There’s No One to Talk to? Spanish Foreign Language Discourse in Simulated Oral Proficiency Interviews69
2. Turns and Sequences in Language Proficiency Interviews
Framing the Language Proficiency Interview as a Speech Event: Native and Non-Native Speaker’s Questions117
Miscommunication in Language Proficiency Interviews of First-Year German Students: A Comparison with Natural Conversation147
Knowledge and Communication in Language Proficiency Interviews
Knowledge Structures in Oral Proficiency Interviews for International Teaching Assistants173
3. Language Proficiency Interviews as Cross-Cultural Encounters
Maintaining American Face in the Korean Oral Exam: Reflections on the Power of cross-Cultural Context271
Confirmation Sequences as Intercational Resources in Korean Language Proficiency Interviews297
“Let Them Eat Cake!” or how to Avoid Losing Your Head in Cross-Cultural Conversations355
Index of Names383
Index of Topics391
