About this workshop

Introduction

In this workshop, Silvia Kunitz discusses multipart oral exams and how they can be analyzed through a conversation analytic lens. She introduces the rationale behind multipart-oral exams, i.e., a testing format that allows the assessment of students’ interactional competence as they interact with different interlocutors and perform different tasks. She also illustrates, through data analysis, how the formulation of the test instructions and the view of “conversation” it portrays can have an impact on the organization of the students’ interaction.

Time commitment

35 minutes

Before you start

Download the pre-workshop handout, and consider the following questions:
1) What do you expect students to be able to do by the end of one semester of language class?
2) Is variation in test tasks an important element for you?
3) How would your students react to having shared grade components?