Speaker
Shzh-chen Nancy Lee
(Osaka University)
Description
The evaluation of English speaking proficiency remains a challenge for learners and teachers in Japan. This study examines learner evaluation of EFL communicative adequacy. Communicative adequacy has been conceptualized as the extent to which speakers successfully achieve the communicative goals of a given task (Pallotti, 2009). Fifty Japanese university students evaluated a video of two learners attempting to schedule an appointment with each other. They intuitively rated the extent of target speaker’s success on a five-point Likert scale and explained their judgments in a questionnaire. Results will be compared with prior research on learner evaluations of monologues and dialogues.
Author
Shzh-chen Nancy Lee
(Osaka University)