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The Role of Questioning Prompts in Conversation: A Study of Pupils’ Performance in a Secondary School EL Oral Assessment.

Pupils&#8217, performance in the English Language oral examination is never an isolated outcome. The examiner&#8217,s role would in some ways, affect how well a student performs. A detailed analysis of the discourse characteristics of the oral interactions could help to highlight this relationship. This study considers the effect of examiners&#8217, prompts in the conversation session of the examination. Based on conversational analyses of 17 full-length oral interactions, it is argued that assessments of students&#8217, performance are reflected in the extent of promptings by the examiners and that the variation in results may provide a useful understanding in validating proficiency and providing a parameter for examiners&#8217, conduct. In general, the findings of this study suggest that the examiner plays an important role in students&#8217, display of oral proficiency. Apart from the questionings, factors like linguistics, pedagogical and social, interact in influencing the performance of test takers.

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