This article provides a review of research in applied linguistics published in Australia in the
period 2015–2022. Primarily, it is based on articles from Australian publications as material …

There has recently been strong interest in the assessment of interactional competence (IC)
as witnessed by a special issue of the journal Language Testing (Plough et al., 2018) …

Learning-oriented assessment (LOA) has recently gained increasing attention among
language researchers. It has been found momentous for both teaching and learning …

Interactional competence (IC) is a crucial component of teaching and assessing speaking in
second/foreign languages in general. However, SLA research based on Conversation …

This paper is positioned at the interface of second/foreign language (L2) assessment and
Conversation Analysis-Second Language Acquisition (CA-SLA). It explores challenges of …

The contributions to this Special Issue employ conversation analysis to illustrate how
detailed analysis of language use can lead to the identification of assessable features of …

This dissertation documents the development and validation of a standardized large-scale
language test on second language (L2) interactional competence (IC). More specifically, this …

This study examines how L2 learners of English at different pragmatic performance levels
implement requests during role-play assessment interaction. In doing so, the role of …

We present doing language testing sequences; L2 learners decide for themselves to test
themselves or each other explicitly on new linguistic items, outside the official task cycle with …

While Interactional Competence (IC) has been a facet of models of competence for as long
as communicative competence has existed (Hymes, 1974), a psycholinguistic approach …