Ben Fenton-Smith (@benjifento.bsky.social)

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Open access publication with Desiree Kawabata. ‘Coherence’ is a ubiquitous term in language testing but hard to pin down. This has consequences for people’s lives, who rely on scores as ‘proof’ of competency (e.g. to enter a country, a university or a profession).

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Incoherent coherence? Using systemic functional linguistics to improve oral language assessment literacy - The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy This paper discusses the challenges of defining coherence in the context of oral language assessment literacy and proposes that better understanding of the construct can be achieved through a systemic... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44020-024-00073-7