(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631882504)
With the growing recognition of the need to broaden the definition of Interactional Competence (IC) for communication and learning, this monograph offers the first book-length treatment on the conceptualization, development and validation of IC asses...Loe edasi...
Claudia Harsch, Nikola Dobri, Hermann Cesnik, Claudia Harsch
Sari: Language Testing and Evaluation
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631871430)
The contributors to this volume take up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized tests, the acknowledgement of language varieties in high-stakes exams, fostering language assessment literacy or psychometric models to enhance C-test i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631805398)
Virtual standard setting became more popular since the global outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020. Standard setting practitioners needed to conduct either cut score studies and/or linking studies online. The research presented in this book predates Covid...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Dec-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631865408)
This book explores the construct of language in use, specifically as operationalised through different item types in the Austrian Matura (school-leaving exam). Empirical research on some of these item types is scarce. The auth...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631842225)
The book introduces a framework for examining the validity of tests that aim to assess second-language (L2) proficiency development over time and/or in relation to L2 instruction. It also reports the findings of a longitudinal study that aimed to exa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Mar-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631812495)
In this book, the author investigates a central issue in language testing research: What are the key features that contribute to item difficulty in a reading test? Results of various statistical analyses of the multiple-choice reading items from the...Loe edasi...
Rüdiger Grotjahn, Anastasia Drackert, Mirka Mainzer-Murrenhoff, Anna Soltyska, Anna Timukova
Sari: Language Testing and Evaluation
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631818374)
Der Sammelband prasentiert aktuelle Forschungen zum Testen bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen und akademischer Sprachkompetenzen in folgenden Disziplinen bzw. Kontexten: Englisch als Fremdsprache, Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache, CLIL, Russisch und...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Mar-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631780091)
This Festschrift for Tim McNamara brings together papers on the social impact of language tests, such as fairness and justice of test use, testing of interaction, and teachers’ and students’ views of language tests. It also discusses the future of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631749388)
This book describes language test development and language testing research in Austria. It documents large-scale test development for German as a first language, the foreign languages English, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as Latin and Anci...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631742068)
This book explores the development of C-tests for providing efficient measures of foreign language proficiency in eight different languages: Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Researchers report on how C-te...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631666913)
This book presents a unique inter-university scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two new rating scales for the assessment of academic presentations and interactions. The use of rating scales for performance assessment has inc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Nov-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631667217)
The book introduces the reader to an argument-based approach to validity as a way to improve test validation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. Motivated by the need for practical suggestions for raising proficiency assessment standards i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Sep-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631656150)
Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up with different ratings for the very same performance and it seems that assessment outcomes largely depend...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Dec-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631656556)
Liontou presents students, academics, researchers, and practitioners with an investigation of a range of linguistic features that characterize texts used at the independent user and proficient user levels of the Greek State Certificate of English Lan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631653791)
Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631654309)
Dieser Band illustriert den aktuellen Stand der C-Test-Forschung. C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstruieren sind. This collection of papers illustrates the state of the art of C-Test research. C-T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Apr-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631650080)
Throughout Europe, but especially in Germany, foreign language teachers, especially teachers of English as a foreign language, are being required to promote the acquisition of intercultural communicative competence. Timpe explains how intercultural l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631648919)
The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) has the largest test population of all language tests for Chinese as a foreign language tests, says Meyer, and is the most studied. He analyzes the test in its old form--before 2010--in terms of language proficiency, v...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631650158)
Diese Arbeit untersucht die theoretische und empirische Validität der Skalen für Wortschatz und Flüssigkeit des Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen (GeRS) für Italienisch und Deutsch. Sie zeigt, dass die Skalen auf keiner ......Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631601099)
In order to explore the nature of co-constructed interaction in group oral language tests, Nakatsuhara (English language learning and assessment, U. of Bedfordshire, Britain) investigates how the extraversion and oral proficiency levels of a test-tak...Loe edasi...
