The Discourse of the IELTS Speaking Test
The Discourse of the IELTS Speaking Test

Author: Paul Seedhouse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108437691

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The volume provides a unique dual perspective on the evaluation of spoken discourse in that it combines a detailed portrayal of the design of a face-to-face speaking test with its actual implementation in interactional terms. Using many empirical extracts of interaction from authentic IELTS Speaking Tests, the book illustrates how the interaction is organised in relation to the institutional aim of ensuring valid assessment. The relationship between individual features of the interaction and grading criteria is examined in detail across a number of different performance levels.

Formulaic Sequences
Formulaic Sequences

Author: Norbert Schmitt

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781588115003

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Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality, the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS. The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative, and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS.

IELTS Speaking 2021
IELTS Speaking 2021

Author: Darshan Singh

Publisher: Freedom Publishing House

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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This book is written after a thorough research in the field of IELTS Speaking Module. This book will offer you comprehensive variety of Topics that are asked by the examiners in the Speaking Test of IELTS. This book contains more than 800 solved questions and answers for the follow-up round as well as Cue-card topics from the past exams. This book also contains expected topics for the year 2021. This book includes five parts in which solutions are given for all the questions. This book should be read systematically in order to score high band score in your IELTS exam. This book contains 1000 + useful vocabulary words along with speaking tips for the candidates. Read all those tips before taking the exams. This book is a compilation of the most common and frequent questions and topics asked in the IELTS speaking test. This is entirely a guess work and shouldn’t be considered as the final syllabus of the exam.

Testing Second Language Speaking
Testing Second Language Speaking

Author: Glenn Fulcher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 131787367X

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The testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process. Glenn Fulcher's Testing Second Language Speaking is a state-of-the-art volume that considers the assessment of speaking from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The book offers the first systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the testing of second language speaking. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it covers: Explanations of the process of test design Costing test design projects How to put the test into practice Evaluation of speaking tests Task types for testing speaking Testing learners with disabilities It also contains a wealth of examples, including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests and specific methodologies that teachers, students and test developers may use in their own projects. Successfully integrating practice and theory, this book demystifies the process of testing speaking and provides a thorough treatment of the key ethical and technical issues in speaking evaluation.

IELTS Collected Papers
IELTS Collected Papers

Author: Lynda B. Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 0521542480

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This volume contains ten research studies which informed the revised IELTS Speaking and Writing Modules, 2001 and 2005.

Talking and Testing
Talking and Testing

Author: Richard Young

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9027241201

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A collection of papers that document various dimensions of the ways in which the language learner and the language proficiency interviewer use language to accomplish oral language assessment tasks.

Assessing Speaking in Context
Assessing Speaking in Context

Author: M. Rafael Salaberry

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2021-07-23

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1788923839

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This edited volume investigates the nature and possible applications of an expanded and reconceptualized theoretical construct of speaking as a dynamic socially-constructed endeavour. It addresses both theoretical perspectives and methodological procedures to define and circumscribe the assessment of contextualized speaking. The chapters focus on the complexity brought about by actual interactional competence in speaking tasks and discuss how testing and assessment models and practices can incorporate recent research findings on the inherently dynamic and situated nature of language use. The volume presents research on language assessment in a variety of languages other than English, including French, Chinese and Japanese. It also examines the role that embodied action (gaze, gesture, orientation to materials and texts in the environment) plays in assessment practices, an area that has heretofore remained under-explored. Chapter 6 is free to download as an open access publication. You can access it here: https://zenodo.org/record/5163340#.YQvJ0IhKjcs

IELTS Examiner's Tips
IELTS Examiner's Tips

Author: Karolina Achirri

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781517126056

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IELTS Examiner's Tips: An Academic Guide to IELTS Speaking and Writing is intended for international students preparing for IELTS. If you've taken IELTS a few times already, are going to take IELTS soon, target a score higher than a Band 6, this book is exactly what you need. It brings an experienced examiner's perspective to the test preparation. It focuses on most frequently asked IELTS questions, the dos and don'ts of the Speaking Room, examiners' pet peeves, most overused or misused vocabulary, and discourse markers needed for a high score. The textbook explains Writing tasks in depth, and features quotations and knowledge of tenses needed to succeed at IELTS. It provides you with the largest bank of real Speaking exam topics as well as IELTS assessment criteria, all explained in an approachable way. This textbook contains 114 topics for Speaking Part 1 with over 1000 questions your examiners might ask. You will be able to practice over 150 topics for Part 2 with 3200 native level words and phrases to boost your score, and over 3600 real questions for Part 3. Don't miss out on this title! It's a must before your exam!

IELTS Collected Papers 2
IELTS Collected Papers 2

Author: Lynda B. Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 1107602645

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This volume reports research that informs the development of reading and listening assessment in IELTS. This volume brings together a set of eight IELTS-related research studies - four on reading and four on listening - conducted between 2005 and 2010. Findings from these studies provide valuable evidence on the validity, reliability, impact and practicality of the IELTS test; they are also instrumental in highlighting aspects needing attention, and thus directly inform the continuing evolution of the IELTS reading and listening tests. The volume reviews and comments on the specific contribution of each study to the ongoing process of IELTS reading and listening test design and development.