Interactional Competence (IC) involves speakers' ability to make social actions recognizable
to one another while taking into account individual identities and social role relationships …

This paper deals with an end-of-semester interactional competence (IC) assessment of L2
oral communication skills for higher education students. Despite the growing research …

While several studies support the appropriateness of tasks delivered through Spoken Dialog
Systems (SDSs) for L2 oral communication assessment, few studies have explored the …

In the assessment of second language oral communication, the video-call speaking test has
received increasing attention as a test method with higher practicality than its in-person …

During oral examinations, students sometimes fail to provide correct answers, which creates
a challenge for examiners regarding how to respond. We know much about teacher …

This mixed-methods study explores Embodied Resources (ERs) in an online, triadic task
involving 52 candidates within the Common European Framework of Reference for …

This paper investigates how as assessment roleplay task was being interpreted and
performed by its student test-takers. The rationale for this is that we need feedback into …

This chapter argues for conceptualizing listening as going beyond an individual-cognitive
but also as a socio-interactional phenomenon. Through discussing three dimensions of …

Second language (L2) learners often experience a disconnect between the types of spoken
language they are exposed to in their L2 classrooms, and the types of spoken language that …

In speaking tests, speaking ability is usually defined as the ability to speak fluently,
comprehensibly and coherently, to use accurate and appropriate grammar and vocabulary …