To the Problem of Narrative and Narration in L2 Oral Language Proficiency Testing

Книшевицька, Лілія Володимирівна (2023) To the Problem of Narrative and Narration in L2 Oral Language Proficiency Testing Science and innovation of modern world Proceedings of XI International Scientific and Practical Conference London, United Kingdom 13-15 July 2023. pp. 248-253.

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Abstract

The present study investigates discourse organization of L2 interviewees’ responses to one particular question in an English oral language proficiency test (Video Oral Сommunication Instrument or VOCI) that is constructed in a form of a semi-direct video conference with the English language learners. The participants of the study are twenty-five EFL university students enrolled into English language classes in Ukraine that are divided into two groups according to their levels of L2 proficiency. The hypothesis of the study is that there is a positive linear correlation between a level of proficiency and a preference for either a strategy of a narration or a narrative. However, the results of the study, showed non-linear correlation in both proficiency groups (intermediate and advanced/superior) between the language proficiency and a choice of a narrative or narration strategies. Both strategies were chosen by the candidates as the optimal strategies for their level of oral language proficiency. Apparently, it is easier to tell a story due to its universality than to describe in L2. The lower level candidates use this knowledge as a compensation strategy, the higher ones as an efficiency strategy.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Narrative; narration; speech act; story-telling; narratives of personal experience; discourse analysis; L2 oral testing; VOCI; oral language; proficiency; oral language testing; interview; speech act theory; a theory of a narrative structure.
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Наукові конференції > Міжнародні
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра лінгвістики та перекладу
Depositing User: Викладач Лілія Володимирівна Книшевицька
Date Deposited: 08 Nov 2023 08:52
Last Modified: 08 Nov 2023 08:52
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/46938

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