Manual for the Vietnamese Elicited Imitation Test
Subtitle
Manual plus 2 audio CDs
Research on second languages — especially English, Spanish and Japanese — demonstrates that elicited imitation can be a reliable and valid measure of general competence, while also possibly serving as an instrument for linguistically oriented second-language-acquisition research. This test of Vietnamese consists of two parallel forms, each with 48 sentences of standard Northern Vietnamese. Even though these represent normal statements and expressions, some of them may be difficult to recall in their entirety. Performance on the test is scored on a scale of accuracy for each item.
Bio
Matthew Prior is an associate professor of English in linguistics and applied linguistics at Arizona State University.
Date published
Publisher
National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai’I at Manoa College or unit