2. Oral Fluency and Spoken Proficiency: Considerations for Research and Testing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Introduction
7. 1. How to Assess L2 Proficiency? An Overview of Proficiency Assessment Research 3
8. Part 1: General Considerations for L2 Assessment
9. 2. Oral Fluency and Spoken Proficiency: Considerations for Research and Testing 27
10. 3. Multiple Assessments of Oral Proficiency: Evidence from a Collaborative Platform 54
11. 4. Using Learner Corpora for Testing and Assessing L2 Proficiency 71
12. Part 2: Language Processing and L2 Proficiency
13. 5. Listening Comprehension: Processing Demands and Assessment Issues 93
14. 6. A Psycholinguistic Measurement of Second Language Proficiency: The Coefficient of Variation 109
15. 7. Evaluating the Workings of Bilingual Memory with a Translation Recognition Task 122
16. Part 3: Focused Assessment Instruments
17. 8. ‘Repeat as Much as You Can’: Elicited Imitation as a Measure of Oral Proficiency in L2 French 143
18. 9. Exploring the Acquisition of the French Subjunctive: Local Syntactic Context or Oral Proficiency? 167
19. 10. Testing L2 Listening Proficiency: Reviewing Standardized Tests Within a Competence-Based Framework 191
20. 11. Assessing Language Dominance with the Bilingual Language Profile 208
21. Epilogue 226
22. Index 228