Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Web-Based Virtual Environments for Facilitating Assessment of L2 Oral Communication Ability. |
| Authors: |
Ockey, Gary J.1, Gu, Lin2, Keehner, Madeleine2 |
| Source: |
Language Assessment Quarterly. Oct-Dec2017, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p346-359. 14p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Virtual classrooms, *Communicative competence, Oral communication ability testing |
| Abstract: |
A growing number of stakeholders argue for the use of second language (L2) speaking assessments that measure the ability to orally communicate in real time. A Web-based virtual environment (VE) that allows live voice communication among individuals may have potential for aiding in delivering such assessments. While off-the-shelf voice communication VEs, such as Second Life, have been used for language learning and to a much lesser extent, language assessment, a very limited number of such environments have been designed with the explicit aim of aiding in assessing L2 oral communication. Moreover, test developers who desire to build such a VE have little theoretical basis to guide them. This conceptual article fills this void by discussing some of the theoretical issues that were considered when the researchers built a VE to help deliver L2 oral communication assessments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
