Miscommunication in Language Proficiency Interviews of First-Year German Students

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Language Proficiency Interviews 1
5. 1. Language Proficiency Interviews and Conversation
6. Re-analyzing the OPI 27
7. Evaluating Learner Interactional Skills 53
8. What Happens When There’s No One to Talk to? Spanish Foreign Language Discourse in Simulated Oral Proficiency Interviews 69
9. 2. Turns and Sequences in Language Proficiency Interviews
10. Answering Questions in LPIs 101
11. Framing the Language Proficiency Interview as a Speech Event 117
12. Miscommunication in Language Proficiency Interviews of First-Year German Students 147
13. Knowledge and Communication in Language Proficiency Interviews
14. Knowledge Structures in Oral Proficiency Interviews for International Teaching Assistants 173
15. The Use of Communication Strategies in Language Proficiency Interviews 205
16. Meaning Negociation in the Hungarian Oral Proficiency Examination of English 239
17. 3. Language Proficiency Interviews as Cross-Cultural Encounters
18. Maintaining American Face in the Korean Oral Exam 271
19. Confirmation Sequences as Intercational Resources in Korean Language Proficiency Interviews 297
20. Divergent Frame Interpretations in Oral Proficiency Interview Interaction 333
21. “Let Them Eat Cake!” or how to Avoid Losing Your Head in Cross-Cultural Conversations 355
22. Index of Names 383
23. Index of Topics 391