The Rating of Direct and Semi-Direct Oral Proficiency Interviews: Comparing Performance at Lower Proficiency Levels.  

Oleh:

Tschirner, Erwin ; Kenyon, Dorry M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Modern Language Journal (sebagian Full Text & ada di JSTOR) vol. 84 no. 1 (Jan. 2000), page 85-101.
Topik: Oral Proficiency Interviews; Proficiency Levels;
Fulltext: Vol 84 no 1 pp.85-101.pdf (644.39KB)

Isi artikel

As states and universities institute oral proficiency requirements with vast numbers of students to be tested, there is a need to investigate effective alternatives to the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) that allow group testing. This article reports on a study comparing student performances and test reliabilities for the German Speaking Test (GST) developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics, a semi-direct tape-mediated oral proficiency test, and the ACTFL OPI. Both the GST and a German OPI were administered as final oral exams to a randomly selected group of 20 students (out of a total of 59 students) enrolled in a fourth- semester German course at a large Midwestern university. The OPI levels of the students tested ranged from Novice High (n = 5) and Intermediate Low (n = 9) to Intermediate Mid (n = 6). At these 3 levels, final ratings on the GST and the OPI agreed with each other perfectly in 90% of the cases. There were only 2 one-step disagreements, both involving students who were rated Novice High on the ACTFL OPI, but who received other ratings on the GST. Although the results indicated a high score equivalency between ACTFL proficiency ratings obtained on both tests, this study underscores the pressing need for double ratings and arbitration proce- dures in high stakes testing situations.

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