Analyzing Oral Proficiency Test Performance in General and Specific Purpose Contexts

• Published in: System (Linköping) Vol. 20; no. 3; p. 317
• Main Authors: Douglas, Dan, Selinker, Larry
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: English (Second Language); Graduate Students; Higher Education; Language Proficiency; Language Tests; Languages for Special Purposes; Oral Language; Second Language Learning; Testing

Reports on a study investigating whether a field-specific oral proficiency test would be a better predictor of field-specific performance than a general purpose oral proficiency test. A theoretical discussion is presented on field-specific language testing and guidelines for the construction of oral...