Discourse Analysis In Language Testing

Language testing is concerned with the measurement of language. Language is the trait, and how we go about measuring it is the method. Trait involves the what, and method the how of testing. This paper will focus on the interaction between the what and the how, where the perspective of the what is the domain of discourse analysis. The paper will also review studies and tests that illustrate the degree to which the domain of discourse analysis has contributed to the theory, research, and development of language testing.

[1]  Dorothy M. Chun.  The Neglected Role of Intonation in Communicative Competence and Proficiency. , 1988 .

[2]  Alastair Pollitt,et al.  Calibrating graded assessments: Rasch partial credit analysis of performance in writing , 1987 .

[3]  M. Swain,et al.  THEORETICAL BASES OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TESTING , 1980 .

[4]  D L Rubin,et al.  Adapting syntax in writing to varying audiences as a function of age and social cognitive ability , 1982, Journal of Child Language.

[5]  Charles J. Fillmore,et al.  Ideal readers and real readers , 1983 .

[6]  Lyle F. Bachman.  语言测试要略 = Fundamental considerations in language testing , 1990 .

[7]  E. Tarone.  On the Variability of Interlanguage Systems , 1983 .

[8]  Tony Deyes.  Towards an Authentic ‘Discourse Cloze’ , 1984 .

[9]  David D. Smith,et al.  The Development of Second Language Proficiency , 1992 .

[10]  F. Michael Connelly,et al.  Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry , 1990 .

[11]  Helen B. Slaughter,et al.  A Sociolinguistic-Discourse Alternative for Language Proficiency Assessment. , 1982 .

[12]  Tina Raffaldini,et al.  The Use of Situation Tests as Measures of Communicative Ability , 1988, Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

[13]  Leo Van Lier,et al.  Reeling, Writhing, Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils: Oral Proficiency Interviews as Conversation , 1989 .

[14]  W. Ong,et al.  Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word , 1982 .

[15]  Elana Shohamy,et al.  THE STABILITY OF ORAL PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT ON THE ORAL INTERVIEW TESTING PROCEDURES , 1983 .

[16]  Elaine Tarone,et al.  Variation In Interlanguage , 1988 .

[17]  Elana Shohamy,et al.  From Testing Research to Educational Policy: Introducing a New Comprehensive Test of Oral Proficiency. , 1986 .

[18]  S. Blum-Kulka,et al.  Crosscultural pragmatics and the testing of communicative competence , 1985 .

[19]  Gissi Sarig.  Testing meaning construction: can we do it fairly? , 1989 .

[20]  Deborah Tannen,et al.  Analyzing discourse : text and talk , 1982 .

[21]  Michael. Milanovic.  The construction and validation of a performance-based battery of English language progress tests. , 1988 .

[22]  Elaine Tarone,et al.  SYSTEMATICITY AND ATTENTION IN INTERLANGUAGE1 , 1982 .

[23]  D. N. Ripich,et al.  Narrative Abilities of Children with Learning Disabilities and Nondisabled Children , 1988, Journal of learning disabilities.

[24]  Andreas Digeser,et al.  Understanding second language acquisition , 1988, Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

[25]  Steven Ross,et al.  Accomodation in interlanguage discourse from an EFL perspective , 1988 .

[26]  J. Gumperz.  Communicative competence revisited , 1984 .

[27]  B. Spolsky,et al.  Testing Language Proficiency. , 1976 .

[28]  Keith A. Johnson,et al.  交際法語言教學 = The Communicative approach to language teaching , 1979 .

[29]  Steven Ross.  An Experiment with a Narrative Discourse Test. , 1987 .

[30]  Lyle F. Bachman,et al.  THE CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF THE FSI ORAL INTERVIEW1 , 1981 .

[31]  Patrick Allen,et al.  The Development of Second Language Proficiency: The nature of language proficiency , 1990 .

[32]  J. Cummins.  Language and literacy acquisition in bilingual contexts , 1989 .

[33]  神保 尚武.  言語運用能力(Communicative Competence) , 1987 .

[34]  Dan Douglas,et al.  Principles for language tests within the 'discourse domains' theory of interlanguage: research, test construction and interpretation , 1985 .

[35]  Patrick Allen,et al.  The Development of Second Language Proficiency , 1990 .

[36]  Jon Jonz,et al.  TEXTUAL COHESION AND SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION , 1987 .

[37]  John W. Oller,et al.  Issues in Language Testing Research. , 1983 .

[38]  E. Shohamy.  A Proposed Framework for Testing the Oral Language of Second/Foreign Language Learners , 1988, Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

[39]  Lyle F. Bachman,et al.  The Construct Validation of Some Components of Communicative Proficiency , 1982 .

[40]  Flora V. Rodriguez-Brown.  A Sociolinguistic Perspective of Language Proficiency of Limited English Proficient Students. , 1986 .

[41]  Skee Smith,et al.  The U.S. Department of Education. , 1979 .