Carsten Roever

What scores from monologic speaking tests can(not) tell us about interactional competence

Carsten Roever, Naoki Ikeda

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANGUAGE TESTING

The overarching aim of the study is to explore the extent to which test takers’ performances on monologic speaking tasks provide i..

The measurement of implicit and explicit knowledge

Rod Ellis, Carsten Roever

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANGUAGE LEARNING JOURNAL

This article presents a review of research that has investigated ways of measuring implicit and explicit knowledge of a second lan..

A study of Chinese learners' ability to comprehend irony

Rod Ellis, Yan Zhu, Natsuko Shintani, Carsten Roever

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS

The purpose of this study was to investigate Chinese University students' ability to recognize irony. To this end, we developed a ..

Assessment of Pragmatics

Carsten Roever

Book Chapter  |  2020

The assessment of second language pragmatics is a relatively recent enterprise. This entry will briefly review the construct of pr..

Testing pragmatic competence in a second language

C Roever, N Ikeda

Book Chapter  |  2020

Testing of second language pragmatics is an area of growing research interest, and a number of tests have been developed, though n..

Task Closings in L2 Text-Chat Interactions: A Study of L2 Interactional Competence

Makoto Abe, Carsten Roever

Journal article  |  2020  |  CALICO JOURNAL

Employing a CA-inspired methodological approach, this study investigates L2 learners’ interactional competence for dyadic interact..

Including L2-English Varieties in Listening Tests for Adolescent ESL Learners: L1 Effects and Learner Perceptions

David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever

Journal article  |  2019  |  Language Assessment Quarterly: an international journal

Because English is widely used as a lingua franca, language testers have started to consider the introduction of non-native accent..

Interactional competence in L2 text-chat interactions: First-idea proffering in task openings

Makoto Abe, Carsten Roever

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS

This study explores the opening phase of online task-based text-chat interactions between second language (L2) learners of English..

Social Perspectives on Language Testing Papers in Honour of Tim McNamara

Carsten Roever, Gillian Wigglesworth

Book  |  2019

Tim McNamara’s work has had a fundamental impact on language testing. This volume brings together over 20 leading scholars in lang..

Speaking in turns and sequences: Interactional competence as a target construct in testing speaking

Carsten Roever, Gabriele Kasper

Journal article  |  2018  |  LANGUAGE TESTING

In the assessment of speaking, a psycholinguistically based speaking construct has predominated. In this paper, we argue for the i..