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ERIC Number: EJ629600
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0265-5322
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Examining Dialogue: Another Approach to Content Specification and To Validating Inferences Drawn from Test Scores.
Swain, Merrill
Language Testing, v18 n3 p275-302 Jul 2001
Examines one aspect of the many interfaces between second language (L2) learning and L2 testing. The aspect is the oral interaction--the dialogue--that occurs within small groups. Discusses from within a sociocultural theory of mind, that in a group, performance is jointly constructed and distributed across the participants. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Inferences, Interaction, Language Tests, Oral Language, Scores, Second Language Learning, Social Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Test Validity, Testing
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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