Estimating the Difficulty of Oral Proficiency Tasks: What Does the Test-Taker Have To Offer?.

Elder, Catherine; Iwashita, Noriko; McNamara, Tim

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ERIC Number: EJ653933

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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Estimating the Difficulty of Oral Proficiency Tasks: What Does the Test-Taker Have To Offer?

Elder, Catherine; Iwashita, Noriko; McNamara, Tim

Language Testing, v19 n4 p347-68 Oct 2002

Investigated the impact of performance conditions on perceptions of task difficulty in a test of spoken language, in light of the cognitive complexity framework proposed by Skehan (1998). Candidates performed narrative tasks whose characteristics and the conditions under which they were performed were manipulated, and the impact of these on task performance was analyzed. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Evaluation, Task Analysis, Testing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Interpretations, Intended Uses, and Designs in Task-Based Language Assessment.