Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in Latvia
The article examines different facets of the role play task, its application in the Year 12 English language examination and the statistical analysis of its results with the purpose to validate the use of role play for testing the sociocultural competence in Latvia. The research method of the role p...
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University of Latvia Press
2015-06-01
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| description | The article examines different facets of the role play task, its application in the Year 12 English language examination and the statistical analysis of its results with the purpose to validate the use of role play for testing the sociocultural competence in Latvia. The research method of the role play here combines the features of external validation (construct validation) with internal validation (contents and response validation). The statistical findings suggest that the role-play task ensures a reliable and valid method of assessment of the student performance; it also provides a means for reliable assessment of a large proportion of the curriculum, as the skills tested by role play differ from the skills tested by other examination tasks. The findings of the curricular validation suggest that removing role-play from the examination would undermine the curricular validity of the Year 12 examination. The contents analysis of the task suggests that the difference in the student performance level in Speaking is created by the impact of the assessment of the sociocultural competence as defined by Celce Murcia, Dörnyei, and Thurrell (1995).
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d4400e13d8d4ce09132ac43b055c0d82022-12-22T02:47:00ZengUniversity of Latvia PressBaltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture1691-99712501-03952015-06-015Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in LatviaVita Kalnbērziņa0University of LatviaThe article examines different facets of the role play task, its application in the Year 12 English language examination and the statistical analysis of its results with the purpose to validate the use of role play for testing the sociocultural competence in Latvia. The research method of the role play here combines the features of external validation (construct validation) with internal validation (contents and response validation). The statistical findings suggest that the role-play task ensures a reliable and valid method of assessment of the student performance; it also provides a means for reliable assessment of a large proportion of the curriculum, as the skills tested by role play differ from the skills tested by other examination tasks. The findings of the curricular validation suggest that removing role-play from the examination would undermine the curricular validity of the Year 12 examination. The contents analysis of the task suggests that the difference in the student performance level in Speaking is created by the impact of the assessment of the sociocultural competence as defined by Celce Murcia, Dörnyei, and Thurrell (1995). https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/343assessmentrole playcontent analysissociocultural competenceintercultural competencemulticultural competence |
| spellingShingle | Vita Kalnbērziņa Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in Latvia Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture assessment role play content analysis sociocultural competence intercultural competence multicultural competence |
| title | Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in Latvia |
| title_full | Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in Latvia |
| title_fullStr | Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in Latvia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in Latvia |
| title_short | Validity of Role Play in Sociocultural Competence Assessment in Year 12 Examination in Latvia |
| title_sort | validity of role play in sociocultural competence assessment in year 12 examination in latvia |
| topic | assessment role play content analysis sociocultural competence intercultural competence multicultural competence |
| url | https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/343 |
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