Challenges and innovations in speaking assessment / edited by Larry Davis and John M. Norris.

Assessing second language speaking at ETS: introduction / John M. Norris & Larry Davis -- ETS speaking tests from the 1970s through the 1990s. Historical perspectives on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview: ETS contributions / Judith Liskin-Gasparro -- The TOEFL Test of Spoken English and the genesis of an ETS approach to speaking assessment / Larry Davis -- Design and operation of large-scale speaking tests. Validity considerations for testing speaking in the workplace: the TOEIC Speaking test / Jonathan Schmidgall -- Speaking test tasks for young language learners: development and validation / Edward P. Getman -- Large-scale human scoring of speaking / Cathy Wendler, Nancy Glazer, & Jeffrey Bard -- Use of formulaic language in TOEFL iBT speaking responses: implications for scoring / Xiaoming Xi, Pam Mollaun, & Larry Davis -- Innovations in speaking constructs, tasks, and technologies. Pragmatically speaking: contexts, forms, and functions in L2 speaking assessment / Veronika Timpe-Laughlin -- The use of video in integrated speaking tasks: test-taker perceptions and task performance / Ching-Ni Hsieh, Larry Davis, Yuan Wang, Pam Mollaun, & Jonathan Schmidgall -- Aligning machine-generated feedback on speaking performance with human judgments: some initial explorations / Lin Gu, Pam Mollaun, Jeremy Lee, Yuan Wang, Fred Tstutagawa, Saerhim Oh, Jorge Luis Beltrán Zúñiga.

"The assessment of second language speaking ability has played a central role in the evolution of language testing theory and practice. Educational Testing Service (ETS) has been a primary innovator in all dimensions of speaking assessment since the 1970s, addressing critical challenges through the advent of new test designs, scoring practices, and measurement technologies to make especially large-scale, standardized testing of speaking ability a reality"-- Provided by publisher.