(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jan-2021, Paperback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108931908)
This volume examines the uses of technologies in language test design and validation. Following Cyril Weirs socio-cognitive framework, it reports a series of research studies to shed light on the efficacy and challenges of using technologies in key...Loe edasi...
Language Assessment Literary and Competence Volume 2: Case Studies from Around the World is a set of case studies on approaches to developing language assessment competence....Loe edasi...
Language Assessment Literacy and Competence Volume 1: Research and Reflections from the Field is a collection of studies and personal insights on LAL....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2005, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521836142)
Despite persistent assertions of washback (the influence of testing on teaching and learning) limited research studies have been undertaken on the subject. Even fewer studies have made use of quantitative and qualitative methods to examine washback....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2005, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521836135)
This book reports on a two-part study: the validation of a test of spoken English for Norwegian secondary school pupils and the corpus-based investigation of the role played by smallwords, such as well, sort of, and you know, in bringing abou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2005, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521813518)
This volume documents in some detail the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002. As context for the account of how CELS was conceived, developed, constru...Loe edasi...
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
Sari: Studies in Language Testing
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Apr-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521828970)
Proceedings of the 2001 ALTE conference. The ALTE conference, Euopean Language Testing in a Global Context, was held in Barcelona in 2001 in support of the European Year of Languages. The conference papers presented in ths volume represent a...Loe edasi...
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
Sari: Studies in Language Testing
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2002, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521802277)
Language testers have generally come to recognize the limitations of traditional statistical methods for validating oral language tests. They have begun to consider more innovative approaches to test validation, approaches that promise to illuminate...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Sep-2001, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521660983)
This book documents a comparability study of direct (face-to-face) and semi-direct (language laboratory) versions of the speaking component of the access: test, an English language test designed in the 1990s as part of the selection process for immig...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2001, Paperback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521775762)
This Festschrift brings together 28 invited papers surveying the state of the art in language testing. The papers, by key figures in the field of language testing, cover issues ranging from test construct definition to the design and applications o...Loe edasi...
C. Elder, A. Brown, N. Iwashita, E. Grove, K. Hill, T. Lumley, T. McNamara, K. O'Loughlin
Sari: Studies in Language Testing
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2001, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521772549)
A collection of 28 invited papers surveying the state of the art in language testing. This Festschrift brings together 28 invited papers surveying the state of the art in language testing. The papers, by key figures in the field of language...Loe edasi...
Sari: An Empirical Investigation of the Componentiality of L2 Reading in English for Academic Purposes
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Dec-2000, Paperback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521653817)
The focus on careful reading in theoretical literature has meant that we have somewhat ignored reading behaviours such as skimming, scanning and search reading in the teaching and testing of reading. These theories do not explain how readers process...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Dec-2000, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521652995)
The focus on careful reading in theoretical literature has meant that we have somewhat ignored reading behaviours such as skimming, scanning and search reading in the teaching and testing of reading. These theories do not explain how readers process...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Oct-2000, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521651035)
Fairness of language tests and testing practices has always been a concern among test developers and test users. In the past decade educational and language assessment researchers have begun to focus directly on fairness and related matters such as t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Mar-2000, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521653008)
Language testers are increasingly directing their attention to the development of computer-adaptive testing (CAT) instruments for assessing learners second language ability. This book examines CAT instruments used to assess the receptive skills, wit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Nov-1999, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521651028)
Learner Strategy Use and Performance on Language Tests investigates the relationships between learner strategy use and performance on second language tests. To this effect, it examines the construct validity of two questionnaires, designed within a m...Loe edasi...
Alan Davies, Annie Brown, Cathie Elder, Kathryn Hill, Tom Lumley, Tim McNamara
Sari: Studies in Language Testing
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-1999, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521651011)
This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessment This Dictionary of Language Testing was written over a number of years by a group of researchers at the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jan-1999, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521650991)
Inevitably, it is in the most commonly used languages that the vocabulary of language testing and assessment is most highly developed, and for which most of the literature has been produced. A multilingual glossary has a significant role to play in e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-1998, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521584135)
This book aims to provide practitioners of Verbal protocol analysis with understanding and background Verbal protocol analysis (VPA) is a methodology that is being used extensively by researchers. Recently, individuals working in the area of...Loe edasi...
