Facets of speaking proficiency

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-34

  De Jong, Nivja H ^a   Steinel, Margarita P ^b   Florijn, Arjen F ^b   Schoonen, Rob ^b   Hulstijn, Jan H ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858807534     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263111000489     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Adams, M. L. (1980). Five cooccurring factors in speaking profi ciency. In J. R. Frith (Ed.), Measuring spoken language profi ciency (pp. 1-6). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
2. Anderson, J. (1980). Cognitive psychology and its implications. New York: Freeman.
3. Anderson, J. R., & Lebiere, C. (1998). The atomic components of thought. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
4. Bachman, L. F. (1990). Fundamental considerations in language testing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Bachman, L. F., & Palmer, A. S. (1996). Language testing in practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Berry, V. (2007). Personality differences and oral test performance. Bern: Peter Lang.
7. Boersma, P., & Weenink, D. (2005). PRAAT [Acoustic analysis software]. Retrieved March 1, 2005, from http ://www. praat. org.
8. Brennan, R. L. (2001). Generalizability theory. New York: Springer.
9. Brown, A. (2003). Interviewer variation and the co-construction of speaking profi ciency. Language Testing, 20, 1-25.
10. Canale, M., & Swain, M. (1980). Theoretical bases of communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing. Applied Linguistics, 1, 1-47.
11. Carroll, J. B. (1961). Fundamental considerations in testing for English language profi-ciency of foreign students. In: Testing the English profi ciency of foreign students. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
12. Reprinted in H. B. Allen & R. N. Campbell (Eds.). (1972 ), Teaching English as a second language: A book of readings (pp. 313-320). New York: McGraw Hill.
13. Cholin, J., Levelt, W. J. M., & Schiller, N. O. (2006). Effects of syllable frequency in speech production. Cognition, 99, 205-235.
14. De Jong, J. H. A. L., & Van Ginkel, L. W. (1992). Dimensions in oral foreign language profi-ciency. In L. T. Verhoeven & J. H. A. L. de Jong (Eds.), The construct of language profi-ciency: Applications of psychological models to language assessment (pp. 187-205). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
15. De Jong, N. H., Steinel, M. P., Florijn, A. F., Schoonen, R., & Hulstijn, J. H. (in press). The effect of task complexity on functional adequacy, fluency and lexical diversity in speaking performances of native and nonnative speakers. In A. Housen, F. Kuiken, & I. Vedder (Eds.), Dimensions of L2 performance and profi ciency investigating complexity, accuracy and fluency in SLA. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
16. Douglas, D. (1994). Quantity and quality in speaking test performance. Language Testing, 11, 125-144.
17. Dutch Language Union. (2004). Corpus of spoken Dutch. Retrieved May 1, 2005, from http ://lands. let. ru. nl/cgn/ehome. htm.
18. Eriksen, C. W., Pollack, M. D., & Montague, W. E. (1970). Implicit speech: Mechanism in perceptual encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 84, 502-507.
19. Fulcher, G. (2003). Testing second language speaking. London: Longman.
20. Harley, B., Cummins, J., Swain, M., & Allen, P. (1990). The nature of language profi ciency. In B. Harley, P. Allen, J. Cummins, & M. Swain (Eds.), The development of second language profi ciency (pp. 7-25). New York: Cambridge University Press.
21. He, A. W., & Young, R. F. (1998). Language profi ciency interviews: A discourse approach. In R. F. Young & A. W. He (Eds.), Talking and testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral language profi ciency (pp. 1-24). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
22. Higgs, T. V., & Clifford, R. (1982). The push toward communication. In T. V. Higgs (Ed.), Curriculum, competence and the foreign language teacher (pp. 243-265). Skokie, IL: National Textbook Company.
23. Hu, L., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 1-55.
24. Iwashita, N., Brown, A., McNamara, T., & O'Hagan, S. (2008). Assessed levels of second language speaking profi ciency: How distinct? Applied Linguistics, 29, 24-49.
25. Kline, R. B. (2005). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (2nd ed.). New York: The Guilford Press.
26. Kormos, J. (2006). Speech production and second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
27. Laufer, B., & Nation, P. (1999). A vocabulary-size test of controlled productive ability. Language Testing, 16, 33-51.
28. Lazaraton, A., & Davis, J. (2008). A microanalytic perspective on discourse, profi ciency, and identity in paired oral assessment. Language Assessment Quarterly, 5, 313-335.
29. Lee, S. K. (2007). Effects of textual enhancement and topic familiarity on Korean EFL students' reading comprehension and learning of passive form. Language Learning, 57, 87-118.
30. Lee, Y.-W. (2005). Dependability of scores for a new ESL speaking test: Evaluating prototype tasks. TOEFL Monograph MS-28 (RM-04-07).
31. Lee, Y.-W. (2006). Dependability of scores for a new ESL speaking assessment consisting of integrated and independent tasks. Language Testing, 23, 131-166. (Pubitemid 43651384)
32. Levelt, W. J. M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
33. Levelt, W. J. M., Roelofs, A., & Meyer, A. S. (1999). A theory of lexical access in speech production. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 1-37.
34. Macromedia Authorware 7. 2003 [Computer software]. Retrieved December 1, 2004, from http ://www. macromedia. com/software/authorware.
35. Magnan, S. (1988). Grammar and the ACTFL Oral Profi ciency Interview: Discussion and data. Modern Language Journal, 72, 266-276.
36. McNamara, T. F. (1990). Item response theory and the validation of an ESP test for health professionals. Language Testing, 7, 52-76.
37. McNamara, T. F. (1997). " Interaction" in second language performance assessment: Whose performance? Applied Linguistics, 18, 446-466.
38. Mulder, K., & Hulstijn, J. H. (2011). Linguistic skills of adult native speakers, as a function of age and level of education. Applied Linguistics, 32, 475-494.
39. Nakatsuhara, F. (2008). Inter-interviewer variation in oral interview tests. ELT Journal, 62, 266-275.
40. O'Sullivan, B. (2008). Modelling performance in tests of spoken language. Bern: Peter Lang.
41. Paradis, M. (2004). A neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
42. Poulisse, N. (1999). Slips of the tongue: Speech errors in first and second language production. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
43. Raykov, T., & Marcoulides, G. A. (2000). A first course in structural equation modeling. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
44. Sawaki, Y. (2007). Construct validation of analytic rating scales in a speaking assessment: Reporting a score profi le and a composite. Language Testing, 24, 355-390.
45. Schneider, W., Eschman, A., & Zuccolotto, A. (2002 a). E-prime reference guide. Pittsburgh: Psychology Software Tools.
46. Schneider, W., Eschman, A., & Zuccolotto, A. (2002 b). E-prime user's guide. Pittsburgh: Psychology Software Tools.
47. Schoonen, R. (2005). Generalizability of writing scores: An application of structural equation modeling. Language Testing, 22, 1-30. (Pubitemid 40239676)
48. Schoonen, R. (2011). How language ability is assessed. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning (Vol. II, pp. 701-716). London: Routledge.
49. Schoonen, R., Van Gelderen, A., De Glopper, K., Hulstijn, J., Simis, A., Snellings, P., et al. (2003). First language and second language writing: The role of linguistic fluency, linguistic knowledge and metacognitive knowledge. Language Learning, 53, 165-202. (Pubitemid 36820406)
50. Severens, E., Van Lommel, S., Ratinckx, E., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2005). Timed picture naming norms for 590 pictures in Dutch. Acta Psychologica, 119, 159-187. (Pubitemid 40621717)
51. Snodgrass, J. G., & Vanderwart, M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 6, 174-215.
52. Sternberg, S., Knoll, R. L., Monsell, S., & Wright, C. E. (1988). Motor programs and hierarchical organization in the control of rapid speech. Phonetica, 45, 175-197.
53. Sternberg, S., Monsell, S., Knoll, R. L., & Wright, C. E. (1978). The latency and duration of rapid movement sequences: Comparisons of speech and typewriting. In G. E. Stelmach (Ed.), Information processing in motor control and learning (pp. 117-152). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
54. Thio, K., & Verboog, M. (1993). Verstaanbaar spreken: Een handleiding uitspraakonderwijs voor docenten Nederlands als tweede taal [Comprehensible speaking: A manual for the teaching of pronunciation for teachers of Dutch as a second language]. Muiderberg, The Netherlands: Coutinho.
55. Ullman, M. T. (2001). The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: The declarative/procedural model. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4, 105-122.
56. Ullman, M. T. (2004). Contributions of memory circuits to language: The declarative/procedural model. Cognition, 92, 231-270. (Pubitemid 38270267)
57. Van Buuren, S., & Oudshoorn, C. G. M. (1999). Flexible multivariate imputation by MICE. Leiden, the Netherlands: TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (document # PG 99.054).
58. Van Gelderen, A., Schoonen, R., De Glopper, K., Hulstijn, J., Simis, A., Snellings, P., et al. (2004). Linguistic knowledge, processing speed, and metacognitive knowledge in first-and second-language reading comprehension: A componential analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 19-30. (Pubitemid 38397484)
59. Young, R. F. (2002). Discourse approaches to oral language assessment. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 22, 243-262.