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Language Proficiency Interviews and the Assessment of Speaking,erm ‘LPI’. The chapter outlines some of the main issues associated with claims about the validity of the interview up to the present day, in particular the controversies surrounding the expansion of the interview into higher education. The introductory chapter follows the LPI from its limited use at

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Preliminary Talk and LPI Tasks,to the actual interview tasks. It features two contrastive warm-up excerpts that potentially influence the stance of the candidate to the subsequent tasks. Each of the Language Proficiency Index (LPI) tasks is introduced with a short excerpt illustrating how an interviewer typically frames the task

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The ILR Rating Scale and Rating Criteria, It features an annotated catalog of LPI tasks with authentic excerpts from interviews showing how the tasks introduced in Chap. . are completed by LPI candidates. Each excerpt is assessed in terms of the criteria raters of this version of the LPI were trained in. Each task is rated as fulfilling th

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Role Plays as Pragmatic Assessments,evels of role plays, and what aspects of foreign-language pragmatics each type of role play is designed to assess. This chapter also outlines the importance of factors influencing the role play setup and the variation among interviewers in crafting the role play in such a way as to either make salie

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Task Selection Strategies, interpret the evidence of proficiency in the candidate’s discourse in the light of the real-time rating criteria the interviewer must attend to. The interviewer’s task selection strategy is considered in detail. As the task selection sequence is contingent on task fulfillment, we examine the timing

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Task Frames and Task Repairs,les of incompletely framed tasks are examined with a view to showing the antecedents of task repair and possible rating difficulties when tasks are not understood by candidates. The chapter focuses on different interviewer strategies to frame the assessment tasks in such a manner that candidates und

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Co-construction and Its Limits,ll by different teams of interviewers and raters. The case study features contrastive excerpts of how different interviewers putatively co-construct the interaction. This chapter also focuses on a task-by-task analysis of the candidate’s fluency, as measured in terms of words per turn, lexical range

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Task Sequencing and Sampling on a Japanese LPI,n intermediate-level speaker of Japanese. The chapter focuses on the sequencing of tasks, the evidence supporting the interviewer’s identification of the candidate’s base level, and the pattern of probes to a more difficult task. Evidence of the candidate’s accuracy, content/coherence, and functiona

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