Digitally Empowered Assessment of Interactional Competence in a Second Language: Commentary

Naoko Taguchi

doi:10.1111/lang.70049

Digitally Empowered Assessment of Interactional Competence in a Second Language: Commentary

Naoko Taguchi

English

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Abstract

This commentary underscores the common themes that emerged in the papers in this volume. Based on the themes, three specific areas of future directions are highlighted: (a) going beyond practicality arguments when using digital assessment tools, (b) developing rubric descriptors specific to interactional competence in digital spaces, and (c) promoting intersubjectivity with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered conversation partners in interactional competence assessment tasks.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Language Learning
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.70049
State	Accepted/In press - 2026

Keywords

AI
assessment
interactional competence
intersubjectivity
technology

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Education
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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