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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/83669| Title: | Assessing teacher discourse in a pre-service spoken English proficiency test in Malta |
| Authors: | Vassallo, Odette Xerri, Daniel Jonk, Larissa |
| Keywords: | Language acquisition English language -- Study and teaching -- Malta Linguistic minorities -- Malta Teachers -- Rating of -- Malta Second language acquisition |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Citation: | Vassallo, O., Xerri, D., & Jonk, L. (2021). Assessing teacher discourse in a pre-service spoken English proficiency test in Malta. In B. Lanteigne, C. Coombe & J. D. Brown (Eds.), Challenges in language testing around the world (pp. 487-495). Singapore: Springer Nature. |
| Abstract: | This chapter discusses how the inadequacies of a general spoken English proficiency component for pre-service teachers were addressed by means of the design and implementation of a spoken proficiency test that incorporates teacher discourse as one of its assessment criteria. The assessment of teacher discourse is shown to be an appropriate means of addressing the operational needs of pre-service teachers of English. The chapter explains the rationale behind the test and the way it was designed. It also considers some of the changes and effects observed upon the implementation of the test in the English language teaching sector in Malta. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/83669 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - CenELP Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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