Managing roles in the openings and closings of an Italian oral test Filipi, Anna 10.4225/03/5930bd2ed98e4 https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Managing_roles_in_the_openings_and_closings_of_an_Italian_oral_test/5063527 This paper reports on one of the findings of a study of twenty-one interactions that occurred during the 1992 Victorian Certificate of Education Italian Oral Common Assessment Task (CAT 2). One of the main aims of the study was to see how roles are constrained by the institutional character of the setting. This was done by examining the interactions occurring in the openings and closings of each segment of the CAT using a Conversation Analysis approach. Not surprisingly, it was found that the assessors initiate and conclude the opening and closing segments of the CAT Violations of this format are rare and when they do occur, the assessors act quickly to reaffirm the roles of each of the participants using features of ordinary conversation. The opening arid closing boundaries also provide one of the few environments in the CAT where students ask and indeed are invited to ask questions. The major sequences in these boundaries are made up of adjacency pairs such as questions and answers, greetings and leave taking and basic expansion sequences. 2017-06-02 01:19:41 Conversational analysis 1959.1/6585 journal article Language testing monash:6585 Italian language in Australia. Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.