Assessing Interactional Competence through Paired divergent and convergent speaking tasks
تومان17,000anguage proficiency was first understood as the knowledge of structure (grammatical, lexical, and phonological) that, it was believed, the best be measured by discrete-point tests (Lado, 1961). With the rise of communicative language teaching in the 1970s, performance testing received significance. In 1980s, the language proficiency interview (e.g. the ACTFL oral proficiency interview, or OPI), that was a specific type of performance test, became common. However, there was a large impact of asymmetry of power in examinee-examiner interviews
