Fostering Language Assessment Literacy

Materials, Methods, and Emerging Issues
Herausgeber: Giraldo, Frank; Yan, Xun

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection showcases language assessment literacy, understood as the knowledge, skills, and principles necessary to engage in assessment activities, by problematizing different approaches to its development and offering insights for language teachers and other stakeholders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781032775951
• ISBN-10: 1032775955
• Artikelnr.: 74265980

Autorenporträt

Frank Giraldo is a professor at the Foreign Languages Department of Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Colombia. Xun Yan is a professor of Linguistics and Educational Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Materials, 1. Introduction by Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan; 2. LAL
training in Vietnam: A teacher-centred approach to resource development by
Susan Sheehan and Thuy Thai; 3. Exploring the effect of embedding
assessments into a professional development presentation as a means of
improving language teachers' assessment competency by Michelle L.
Stabler-Havener; 4. Pre-service teachers' language assessment literacy
enhancement - Towards pedagogies for LAL by Karin Vogt; Part 2: Methods,
5. Is online language assessment training helpful to improve language
assessment literacy? Views of Mexican young learner EFL teachers and
training instructors by Elsa Fernanda González and Ricardo de la Garza-Cano
; 6. Put a little imagination in your collaboration: What can thought
experiments do for language assessment literacy? by Newton Paulo Monteiro;
7. Investigating educator-participant interaction in a language assessment
MOOC by Richard Spiby, Carolyn Westbrook, and Jordan Weide; Part 3:
Emerging Issues, 8. Who will teach the teacher educator? Findings and
implications of an online workshop for fostering Brazilian teacher
educators' language assessment literacy by Isadora Moraes and Viviane
Furtoso; 9. Learning about language assessment to teach young learners: The
contribution of an online course by Gladys Quevedo-Camargo and Juliana
Reichert Assunção Tonelli; 10. Critical language assessment literacy (CLAL)
of L2 teachers: Unpacking the impact of CLAL-focused teacher education by
Zia Tajeddin and Mohsen Mahdavi; 11. Social justice in classroom assessment
through teachers' language assessment literacy by Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan
; 12. Conclusions by Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan;