Nonverbal Delivery in Speaking Assessment: From An Argument to A Rating Scale Formulation and Validation

✍ Scribed by Mingwei Pan (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 320
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

With an argument for embedding nonverbal delivery in speaking assessment as a point of departure, this book seeks to validate a proposed rating scale for incorporating nonverbal delivery and other conventional dimensions into speaking assessment with a mixed-methods approach. To illustrate the indispensable role of nonverbal delivery in speaking assessment, the book particularly includes snapshots of test-takers’ de facto nonverbal delivery, which allow their respective levels to be investigated in a microscopic manner.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Literature Review....Pages 9-107
Research Design and Methods....Pages 109-132
Building an Argument for Embedding Nonverbal Delivery into Speaking Assessment....Pages 133-158
Rating Scale Formulation....Pages 159-179
Rating Scale Prevalidation and Modification....Pages 181-197
Rating Scale Validation: An MTMM Approach....Pages 199-214
Rating Scale Validation: An MDA Approach....Pages 215-259
Conclusion....Pages 261-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-305

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Corpus Linguistics

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