Roever, Carsten; Dai, David Wei; (2021) Reconceptualising Interactional Competence for Language Testing. In: Salaberry, M Rafael and Burch, Alfred Rue, (eds.) Assessing Speaking in Context: Expanding the Construct and its Applications. (pp. 23-49). Multilingual Matters: Bristol, UK.

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Abstract

There has recently been strong interest in the assessment of interactional competence (IC) as witnessed by a special issue of the journal Language Testing (Plough et al., 2018) devoted entirely to IC, a special issue on the employment of conversation analysis in assessing IC of the journal Papers in Language Testing Assessment (Youn & Burch, 2020) and the prominent role of IC assessment in the special issue of the journal Language Assessment Quarterly on speaking assessment (Lim, 2018). However, to this date no major language test assesses IC, and this chapter is intended to contribute to ending this lamentable state of affairs. We will do so by discussing why the absence of IC assessment is problematic, why simply assessing proficiency does not give information about testtakers’ IC, what particular challenges IC test designers face and how the IC construct can be broadened to incorporate social role enactment as a rating criterion via membership categorisation analysis (MCA).

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