Abstract

This article investigates how group speaking test candidates manage group talk during assessed, time-limited tasks. Drawing on recorded and transcribed data, it explores how higher-scoring learners manage spoken assessment tasks through their talk, moving conversations on or slowing them down in order to perform and complete the tasks’ requirements in a timely way. These data are contrasted with the ways in which lower-scoring test candidates attempt to organize and manage assessed group talk. While the data and findings from this particular study can be used to teach students about, and prepare them for, multi-person discussions and, more specifically, task-oriented and time-limited group speaking tests, we also suggest that our awareness-raising investigatory approach, if brought into the classroom, offers learners (and teachers) a way of uncovering some of what actually occurs during talk, illuminating the ‘invisible rules’ that guide how participants engage in and manage interaction.

中文翻译：

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在小组口语测试中组织演讲：向高分学生学习

摘要

本文研究了在评估的限时任务中，口语测试候选人如何管理口语讨论。它利用记录和转录的数据，探索高分学习者如何通过谈话，继续进行对话或放慢谈话速度来管理口语评估任务，以便及时执行和完成任务的要求。这些数据与得分较低的考生尝试组织和管理评估的小组讨论的方式形成对比。虽然这项特定研究的数据和发现可以用来教给学生有关多人讨论的知识，并为他们做准备，更具体地说，是面向任务和限时的小组口语测试，但我们也建议我们提高意识调查方法，如果带入教室，实际上是在谈话过程中发生的，阐明了指导参与者如何参与和管理互动的“隐形规则”。