Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The CEFLING project, funded by the Academy of Finland (2007-2009), was set up in 2006 for the explicit purpose of combining the research perspectives of language testing and second language acquisition. In the project, written L2 data were collected from young (aged 12-16) and adult L2 Finnish and L2 English. The overall aim of the project is to describe the features of language that L2 learners use at various levels of language proficiency as described by the CEFR scales. Data elicitation, or what kinds of tasks are used to collect L2 data is a critical issue for both SLA and language testing research. A considerable amount of time and effort went into designing tasks suitable for eliciting L2 data from younger language learners. This chapter presents an account of the procedures that went into designing and assessing these particular L2 writing tasks. Keywords: CEFLING project; CEFR; data elicitation; L2 writing tasks; language testing; second language acquisition
Source: BRILL eBooks
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2592489799