ALTAANZ
  • About ALTAANZ
  • ALTAANZ Committee
    • Current Committee
    • Past Committees >
      • 2024 Committee
      • 2022 - 2023 Committee
      • 2021 Committee
      • 2020 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2018 - 2019 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2017 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2016 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2015 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2014 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2013 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2012 ALTAANZ Committee
      • 2011 ALTAANZ Committee
  • Events
    • ALTAANZ Online Conference 2025 >
      • Registration 2025
      • Keynote Speakers
    • Past Conferences >
      • The Applied Linguistics ALAA/ALANZ/ALTAANZ Conference 2024
      • ALTAANZ Online Conference 2023 >
        • Program 2023
        • Plenary Sessions 2023
        • Registration 2023
        • Conference Committee 2023
      • ALANZ - ALAA - ALTAANZ 2022
      • ALTAANZ Online Research Forum 2021
      • LTRC/ALTAANZ Online Celebratory event 2020 >
        • About the event
        • Event Programme
        • LTRC Anniversary Symposium
      • ALANZ / ALAA / ALTAANZ Auckland 2017
      • ALTAANZ Conference Auckland 2016 >
        • Keynote Speakers >
          • Plenary Abstracts
        • Teachers' Day
        • Pre-conference workshops
        • Conference programme
      • ALTAANZ Conference Brisbane 2014
      • ALTAANZ Conference Sydney 2012
    • Past Workshops >
      • LTRC / ALTAANZ Workshops July 2014 >
        • Test analysis for teachers
        • Diagnostic assessment in the language classroom
        • Responding to student writing
        • Assessing Pragmatics
        • Introduction to Rasch measurement
        • Introduction to many-facet Rasch measurement
      • LTRC / ALTAANZ workshops September 2015 >
        • A Practical Approach to Questionnaire Construction for Language Assessment Research
        • Integrating self- and peer-assessment into the language classroom
        • Implementing and assessing collaborative writing activities
        • Assessing Vocabulary
        • Revisiting language constructs
  • SiLA Journal
    • About SiLA
    • SiLA Publication Policies
    • Early View Articles
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues >
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
    • Editorial Board
    • Submission Guidelines
  • Awards
    • ALTAANZ Best Student Paper Award
    • Penny McKay Award
    • PLTA Best Paper Award
  • Funding Opportunities
  • Newsletter: Language Assessment Matters
  • Resources
    • Best practice in language testing & assessment
  • Join ALTAANZ
  • Contact us
Language assessment literacy for language learning-oriented assessment
Liz Hamp-Lyons, Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment, University of Bedfordshire, UK
https://doi.org/10.58379/LIXL1198
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2017
Abstract: This paper reflects on the findings of a small-scale and exploratory study which attempted to explore whether and how learning-oriented assessment opportunities might be revealed in, or inserted into formal speaking tests, order to provide language assessment literacy opportunities for language teachers teaching in test preparation courses as well as teachers training to become speaking test raters. Hamp-Lyons and Green (2014) closely studied a set of authentic speaking test video samples from the Cambridge: First (First Certificate of English) speaking test, in order to learn whether, and where, learning-oriented behaviours could be encouraged or added to interlocutors’ behaviours, without disrupting the required reliability and validity of the test. We paid particular attention to some basic components of effective interaction that we would want an examiner or interlocutor to exhibit if they seek to encourage interactive responses from test candidates: body language (in particular eye contact; intonation, pacing and pausing); management of turn-taking and elicitation of candidate-candidate interaction. We call this shift in focus to view tests as learning opportunities learning-oriented language assessment (LOLA).
Keywords: language assessment literacy; learning-oriented language assessment; speaking assessment
Click to download Full Text