… ing a speaking component … assessment of L2 speaking through a description of emergent
notions and practices. The focus is broadly on the ways in which the construct of L2 speaking …

Since the publication of the first version of this chapter a decade ago (O'Sullivan, 2013), the
testing of speaking has undergone some significant changes. Some of these changes have …

… However, the authors noted that designing a rating scale and piloting the test with
children who are both native speakers and non-native speakers of Japanese is on their test …

… research on assessing speaking proficiency within the argument-based validation framework
(Chapelle et al., 2008). A total of 104 articles on speaking assessment were collected from …

… of the criteria on the list for assessing the students' speaking skills, adding or deleting as they
… further the criteria they think are relevant for assessing speaking skills, and also, by getting …

With all language skill testing, it is necessary to clearly state the specifications before
beginning to write the test (just as the previous sections have stated). In his very pragmatic ‘…

… Summary:“This book takes a critical perspective of research on assessing speaking in …
interactional competence in speaking tasks and discuss how testing and assessment models and …

… been a focus on the assessment of speaking by means of a face-to-face speaking test as an
… new procedures and a number of different speaking-test formats have been used. Across …

… how well our students currently function in speaking a foreign language. This article
presents research rating the speaking proficiency on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview of …

In this chapter on assessing speaking, the history of speaking assessment is briefly traced
in terms of the various ways in which speaking constructs have been defined and diversified …