Interviewing for Language Proficiency
Interviewing for Language Proficiency

Author: Steven J. Ross

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 3319605283

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This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades. Adopting a mixed-method perspective involving micro-analytic approaches, discourse analysis and quantitative methods such as multi-level modeling and event history analysis, the author focuses on interaction and discourse processes common in language assessment interviews. This innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of language assessment, conversation and discourse analysts, as well as practitioners and providers of oral proficiency assessment.

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.

Basic Interviewing Skills
Basic Interviewing Skills

Author: Raymond L. Gorden

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 1998-05-22

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1478608846

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Interviewing skills are not simple motor skills. Rather, they involve a high-order combination of observation, empathic sensitivity, and intellectual judgment. This guidebook, now available from Waveland Press, provides a process model and a corresponding set of classroom-tested exercises designed to improve basic interviewing skills. The modelcalled the Skill Learning Cycleprovides an initial, guided experience for the complete interview-learning process, including planning, doing, and analyzing phases. It also stands as a model for the student to use in the future for continued growth in interviewing skills. In order to focus on the most basic interviewing skills, only the information-gathering function, which is common to all interviews, is discussed.

Interviewing Art and Skill
Interviewing Art and Skill

Author: Jeanne Tessier Barone

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205140886

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INTERVIEWING: Art and Skill is the only book for the basic course in Interviewing to systematically incorporate multicultural and global issues. This focus on diversity extends to interviewing across the communication spectrum in gender and culture-neutral language. Federal legislation affecting interviewing in the workplace and ethical issues affecting the interviewer are thoroughly discussed.

The Art of Nonconversation
The Art of Nonconversation

Author: Marysia Johnson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0300129440

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The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a widely accepted instrument for assessing second and foreign language ability. It is used by the Foreign Language Institute, the Defense Language Institute, Educational Testing Service, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and at many universities in the United States. The Art of Non-Conversation examines the components of speaking ability and asks whether the OPI is a valid instrument for assessing them. Marysia Johnson applies the latest insights from discourse and conversational analysis to determine the nature of the OPI's communicative speech event and investigate its construct validity within Messick's definition of validity. She discusses models of speaking ability, among others several communicative competence models, an interactional competence model, and a model of spoken interaction based on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of learning. Finally she proposes a new model to test language proficiency drawn from sociocultural theory, one that considers language ability to be reflective of the sociocultural and institutional contexts in which the language has been acquired.

Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers
Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers

Author: Mark Joshi

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780987122827

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The quant job market has never been tougher. Extensive preparation is essential. Expanding on the successful first edition, this second edition has been updated to reflect the latest questions asked. It now provides over 300 interview questions taken from actual interviews in the City and Wall Street. Each question comes with a full detailed solution, discussion of what the interviewer is seeking and possible follow-up questions. Topics covered include option pricing, probability, mathematics, numerical algorithms and C++, as well as a discussion of the interview process and the non-technical interview. All three authors have worked as quants and they have done many interviews from both sides of the desk. Mark Joshi has written many papers and books including the very successful introductory textbook, "The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance."

Clean Language Interviewing
Clean Language Interviewing

Author: Heather Cairns-Lee

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-07-20

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1801173303

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Combining academic rigour with real application examples, a global range of contributors analyse the use of Clean Language Interviewing in multiple settings including business, education, and healthcare.

Cracking the Coding Interview
Cracking the Coding Interview

Author: Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781466208681

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Now in the 5th edition, Cracking the Coding Interview gives you the interview preparation you need to get the top software developer jobs. This book provides: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions: From binary trees to binary search, this list of 150 questions includes the most common and most useful questions in data structures, algorithms, and knowledge based questions. 5 Algorithm Approaches: Stop being blind-sided by tough algorithm questions, and learn these five approaches to tackle the trickiest problems. Behind the Scenes of the interview processes at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Apple: Learn what really goes on during your interview day and how decisions get made. Ten Mistakes Candidates Make -- And How to Avoid Them: Don't lose your dream job by making these common mistakes. Learn what many candidates do wrong, and how to avoid these issues. Steps to Prepare for Behavioral and Technical Questions: Stop meandering through an endless set of questions, while missing some of the most important preparation techniques. Follow these steps to more thoroughly prepare in less time.

Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview
Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview

Author: Celia Roberts

Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)

Published: 2021

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781800500006

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Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview looks at a relatively untapped area of language and social life: the role of language and interaction in constructing the job interview and how this role produces disadvantage in the linguistically diverse communities of the western world. It relates the specific activity of the job interview to the wider field of institutional discourse and discusses relevant social theories in the light of the data.The volume considers job interviews as key 'gatekeeping' encounters within the workplace from two main perspectives: interviews as extreme examples of social evaluation, showing how inferential processes of moment to moment talk in interaction can lead to the 'small tragedies' of everyday life; and interviews as a window into social inequality more generally. It illustrates interactional sociolinguistic and linguistic ethnography methodology through the job interview and workplace data and argues for the importance of practical relevance - applying sociolinguistic analysis to educational interventions.