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E-raamat: Global Perspectives on Language Assessment: Research, Theory, and Practice [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series, this book offers up-to-date research on the rapidly-changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives. Covering a broad range of key topics—including scoring processes, test development, and student and teacher perspectives—contributors offer a comprehensive overview of the landscape of language assessment and discuss the consequences and impact for learners, teachers, learning programs, and society. Focusing on the assessment of language proficiency, this volume provides an original compendium of cutting-edge research that will benefit TESOL and TEFL students, language assessment scholars, and language teachers.

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvi
PART 1 Raters and Rating
1(60)
1 Analytic Rubric Format: How Category Position Affects Raters' Mental Rubric
3(15)
Laura Ballard
2 Rater Training in a Speaking Assessment: Impact on More- and Less-Proficient Raters
18(14)
Larry Davis
3 The Impact of Rater Experience and Essay Quality on the Variability of EFL Writing Scores
32(15)
Ozgtir Sahan
4 Assessing Second Language Writing: Raters' Perspectives from a SocioculturalView
47(14)
Yi Mei
PART 2 Test Development and Validation
61(106)
5 Assessing Clinical Communication on the Occupational English Test9
63(17)
Brigita Seguis
Sarah McElwee
6 Updating the Domain Analysis of the Writing Subtest of a Large-scale Standardized Test for K-12 EnglishLanguage Learners
80(16)
Jing Wei
Tanya Bitterman
Ruslana Westerlund
Jennifer Norton
7 The Effect of Audiovisual Input on Academic Listen-Speak Task Performance
96(12)
Ching-Ni Hsieh
Larry Davis
8 The Reliability of Readability Tools in L2 Reading
108(14)
Alisha Biler
9 Eye-Tracking Evidence on the Role of Second Language Proficiency in Integrated Writing Task Performance
122(17)
Mikako Nishikawa
10 The Effects of Writing Task Manipulations on ESL Students' Performance: Genre and Idea Support as Task Variables
139(13)
Hyung-Jo Yoon
11 Cyberpragmatics: Assessing Interlanguage Pragmatics through Interactive Email Communication
152(15)
Iftikhar Haider
PART 3 Test-taker and Teacher Perspectives
167(61)
12 Did Test Preparation Practices for the College English Test (CET) Work? A Study from Chinese Students' Perspectives
169(14)
Jia Ma
13 Intended Goals and Reality in Practice: Test-takers' Perspectives on the College English Test in China
183(14)
Ying Bat
14 How Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Mediate Assessment Literacy: A Case Study of a University English Teacher in China
197(15)
Yueting Xu
15 Sociocultural Implications of Assessment Practices in Iranian, French, and American Language Classes
212(16)
Soodeh Eghtesad
About the Contributors 228(3)
Subject Index 231(3)
Author Index 234
Spiros Papageorgiou is Managing Senior Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service.

Kathleen M. Bailey is Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA.