35.907, Books: Comprehensibility in Language Assessment: Tavakoli and Cooke (2024)

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Date: 26-Feb-2024
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Comprehensibility in Language Assessment: Tavakoli and Cooke (2024)


Title: Comprehensibility in Language Assessment
Subtitle: A Broader Perspective
Series Title: British Council Monographs on Modern Language Testing
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
                http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/comprehensibility/

Author: Parvaneh Tavakoli
Author: Sheryl Cooke
Abstract:

Comprehensibility is considered central to successful communication
(Munro & Derwing, 1995a, 2007). Yet, despite the crucial role it plays
in communication and the contribution it makes towards the assessment
of spoken language ability, comprehensibility has occupied an
ambiguous position in language testing. At times, it is
feature-driven, taking a linguistically-atomistic approach with little
reference to context or communicative purpose, treating
comprehensibility as an abstract construct made up only of linguistic
components. At other times, the assessment of comprehensibility is an
intuitive action, relying on a holistic sense of understanding by the
assessor and rarely going beyond the speaker’s utterances to include
listener characteristics. The lack of a perspective that encompasses
broader linguistic and socio-pragmatic factors that contribute to
achieving meaning in spoken language has motivated us to propose the
current manuscript as an approach to understanding, defining and
assessing comprehensibility. In this monograph, we argue that
conceptualising comprehensibility as a multidimensional construct and
adopting a broader perspective to understanding and analysing it for
communication purposes would benefit the fields of second language
assessment and second language acquisition.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Written In: English (eng)



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