Includes chapters on key aspects of second language assessment such as test construct, diagnosis, exam design, and the growing range of public policy, social and ethical issues. Each of the contributors is an expert in their area; some are established names while others are talented newcomers to the field.
The chapters present new research or perspectives on traditional concerns such as test quality; fairness and bias; the testing of different language skills; the needs of different groups of examinees, including English language learners who need to take content tests in English; and the use of language assessments for gate-keeping purposes. The volume demonstrates how language assessment is informed by and engages with neighbouring areas of applied linguistics such as technology and language corpora.
The book represents the best of current practice in second language assessment and, as a one volume reference, will be invaluable to students and researchers looking for material that extends their understanding of the field.
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This edited book offers a panoramic view of current thinking in second language assessment. The fifteen substantive chapters cover conceptual and operational challenges in assessment design and test development. Assessment professionals, researchers and students alike will find the up-to-the-minute discussions in this volume highly informative. -- Constant Leung, Professor of Educational Linguistics, King's College London, UK Certainly gives the reader a taste of a wide variety of language testing research projects ... Each of the individual chapters would offer useful insights to researchers engaged in similar projects and would offer interesting material for discussion on graduate courses in language assessment. * ELT Journal *
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Provides cutting-edge research on key aspects of second language assessment, including test construct, diagnosis, exam design, and public policy, social and ethical issues.
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Part One Key Theoretical Considerations |
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1 Modelling Communicative Language Ability: Skills and Contexts of Language Use |
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2 Presenting Validity Evidence: The Case of GESE |
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3 A New National Exam: A Case of Washback |
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4 Linking to the CEFR: Validation Using a Priori and a Posteriori Evidence |
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Part Two Assessment of Specific Language Aspects |
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5 Authentic Texts in the Assessment of L2 Listening Ability |
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6 The Role of Background Factors in the Diagnosis of SFL Reading Ability |
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7 Understanding Oral Proficiency Task Difficulty: An Activity Theory Perspective |
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8 Principled Rubric Adoption and Adaptation: One Multi-method Case Study |
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9 The Social Dimension of Language Assessment: Assessing Pragmatics |
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Part Three Issues in Second Language Assessment |
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10 Applications of Corpus Linguistics in Language Assessment |
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11 Setting Language Standards for International Medical Graduates |
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12 Fairness and Bias in Language Assessment |
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13 ACCESS for ELLs: Access to the Curriculum |
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14 Using Technology in Language Assessment |
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15 Future Prospects and Challenges in Language Assessments |
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Dina Tsagari is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics/TEFL in the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
Jayanti Veronique Banerjee is Research Director at Cambridge Michigan Language Assessments, USA.
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