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9/13/2015 A psycholinguistic approach to oral language assessment
http://ltj.sagepub.com/content/29/3/325.abstract 1/2
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Published online before print March 7, 2012, doi: 10.1177/0265532211424478Language Testing July 2012 vol. 29 no. 3 325344
A psycholinguistic approach to orallanguage assessmentAlistair Van Moere
Knowledge Technologies, Pearson, USA
Alistair Van Moere, 299 S California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA Email:[email protected]
Abstract
This paper presents a framework for incorporating the assessment of psycholinguisticconstructs into spoken language proficiency testing. Although response time andautomaticity of language processing are vital factors in language acquisition, asconstructs they are rarely explicitly assessed in language tests. It is proposed thatefficiency of processing, although it does not appear in most models of communicativelanguage competence, might be viewed as a language competence in its own right. Incontrast to communicative approaches to testing which evaluate mastery of complexlanguage structures or domainspecific vocabulary, an approach which emphasizesefficiency of processing evaluates the speed and accuracy with which a learnerprocesses familiar language, as this provides equally useful information about their L2proficiency. In a study to demonstrate this, the speech of 147 test takers was evaluatedas they performed on conceptually simple and straightforward performance tasks suchas elicited imitation. It was found that sentence repetition and sentence building tasksreliably separated test takers according to proficiency in a way that accounts for the
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9/13/2015 A psycholinguistic approach to oral language assessment
http://ltj.sagepub.com/content/29/3/325.abstract 2/2
tradeoff between fluency, accuracy and complexity. While these tasks would not beconsidered communicative, they are psycholinguistically valid and also link to goodpractice in classroom language learning activities.
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