Global Perspectives on Language Assessment (eBook, ePUB)

Research, Theory, and Practice
Redaktion: Papageorgiou, Spiros; Bailey, Kathleen M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429795497
• Artikelnr.: 55264310

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Raters and Rating
1. Analytic Rubric Format: How Category Position Affects Raters' Mental
Rubric
Laura Ballard
2. Rater Training in a Speaking Assessment: Impact on More- and
Less-Proficient Raters
Larry Davis
3. The Impact of Rater Experience and Essay Quality on the Variability of
EFL Writing Scores
Özgür ¿ahan
4. Assessing Second Language Writing: Raters' Perspectives from a
Sociocultural View
Yi Mei
Part 2: Test Development and Validation
5. Assessing Clinical Communication on the Occupational English Test
Brigita Séguis & Sarah McElwee
6. Updating the Domain Analysis of the Writing Subtest of a Large-scale
Standardized Test for K-12 English Language Learners
Jing Wei, Tanya Bitterman, Ruslana Westerlund & Jennifer Norton
7. The Effect of Audiovisual Input on Academic Listen-Speak Task
Performance
Ching-Ni Hsieh & Larry Davis
8. The Reliability of Readability Tools in L2 Reading
Alisha Biler
9. Eye Tracking Evidence on the Role of Second Language Proficiency in
Integrated Writing Task Performance
Mikako Nishikawa
10. The Effects of Writing Task Manipulations on ESL Students' Performance:
Genre and Idea Support as Task Variables
Hyung-Jo Yoon
11. Cyberpragmatics: Assessing Interlanguage Pragmatics through Interactive
Email Communication
Iftikhar Haider
Part 3: Test-taker and Teacher Perspectives
12. Did Test Preparation Practices for the College English Test (CET) Work?
A Study from Chinese Students' Perspectives
Jia Ma
13. Intended Goals and Reality in Practice: Test Takers' Perspectives on
the College English Test in China
Ying Bai
14. How Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Mediate Assessment Literacy: A
Case Study of a University English Teacher in China
Yueting Xu
15. Sociocultural Implications of Assessment Practices in Iranian, French,
and American Foreign Language Classes
Soodeh Eghtesad
Index