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Publication details [#60392]

Rydell, Maria. 2015. Performance and ideology in speaking tests for adult migrants. Journal of Sociolinguistics 19 (4) : 535–558.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | L2-acquisition | speaking | testing

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper debates how adult migrants acquiring Swedish as a L2 utter beliefs on L2 learning, proficiency, and use during paired speaking tests. Institutional performance displays ideologies. The theoretical framework draws on performance theory and the Bakhtinian addressivity concept.