Catherine Elder   Tim McNamara   Hyejeong Kim   John Pill   Takanori Sato   
Language & Communication 57 14-21 2017年11月 [査読有り]
Models of communicative competence in a second language invoked in defining the construct of widely used tests of communicative language ability have drawn largely on the work of language specialists. The risk of exclusive reliance on language exp...
Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) Journal 56(56) 39-56 2013年 [査読有り]
It has been claimed that language tests have maintained relatively conservative views on what to test and have been mostly attending to test-takers' language-specific features. This concern needs to be taken seriously since a narrowly defined, lan...
Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA) Journal 16 107-126 2013年 [査読有り]
The construct of general-purpose oral proficiency tests has been defined on the basis of the theoretical models of second language (L2) communication established by language specialists. In contrast, the perspectives on the L2 communication abilit...