An Exploration of Speaking Proficiency Measures in the TOEFL Context. Report 4.

Autor/inn/en	Clark, John L. D.; Swinton, Spencer S.
Titel	An Exploration of Speaking Proficiency Measures in the TOEFL Context. Report 4.
Quelle	(1979), (79 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Audiotape Recordings; Communicative Competence (Languages); Correlation; English (Second Language); Higher Education; Item Analysis; Language Proficiency; Language Tests; Scoring; Speech Tests; Test Construction; Test of English as a Foreign Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Korrelation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Itemanalyse; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Language test; Sprachtest; Bewertung; Sprechtest; Testaufbau
Abstract	A three-year study aimed at measuring the English speaking proficiency of Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) candidates on a direct basis is described. A variety of "semi-direct" testing formats (involving test stimuli delivered by tape recording and accompanying booklet, with examinee speech tape recorded for evaluation) were developed as part of the study. These were administered to undergraduate and graduate level non-native English speaking students on a small-scale clinical basis and, following revisions, to a fairly large (N=155) examinee group. A Foreign Service Institute (FSI)-type interview was also administered to all study participants as an external criterion measure of speaking proficiency. Correlational and scalar analyses were used to identify subsets of item formats and individual items having satisfactory correlations with the FSI criterion interview and also meeting relevant linguistic and administrative requirements. These were grouped into a prototype "Test of Spoken English" (TSE) that was found to increase predictability of total FSI variance by approximately 8% when added to score data provided by the regular (paper-and-pencil) TOEFL. (Author/RL)
Anmerkungen	Educational Testing Service, Publications Order Service Section, Princeton, NJ 08541 ($2.00 per copy).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC