한국언어과학회

This study investigated the validation of the computer based oral test using discourse analysis. 48 Korean university students participated in the study took a face-to-face interview and a computer-based oral test. Their performances were video- and computer-recorded and transcribed for analysis. The performances were scored and their discourse was analyzed in terms of discourse factors including errors of lexis and syntax, communication strategies, and discourse markers. The findings were as follows: First, the performances in a computer-based oral test had strong connection with those in a face-to-face interview. Secondly, students’ errors of lexis and syntax, communication strategies, and discourse markers in a computer-based oral test correlated with those in the other test except the morphological error. Thirdly, differences were found between the discourse factors not only in two-way tasks but also in one-way tasks of the two tests. Lastly, weak relationship between scores and discourse factors was shown in one-way tasks of the computer-based oral test.