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Publication Date: 1997
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Assessor Accommodation in the V.C.E.Italian Oral Test.
Cafarella, Caterina
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, v20 n1 p21-41 1997
Investigates, within the context of the question-answer framework of a foreign language oral proficiency test, the interactive nature of spoken discourse between Canadian students and assessors when there is trouble in talk as perceived by the assessors, with a focus on how they accommodate to the students. The study has implications for rater training. (16 references) (Author/OK)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Evaluators, Foreign Countries, Interaction Process Analysis, Interviews, Italian, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Secondary Education, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Testing, Videotape Recordings
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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