Navarro Hernández, Elisa2024-05-202024-05-202022-03-14https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/13878The assessment of the speaking skills of a foreign language is one of the most discussed areas in Applied Linguistics. More specifically, in the field of teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL, henceforth), it has been a topic of research for decades. In the eighties, Canale (1984) already pointed out the challenges of assessing language within the so-called Communicative Approach1, that is, language testing had to face new assessment formats in order to allow creative and open-ended language use, as well as new testing and scoring procedures.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesstesis de maestría