Author : Cyril J. Weir
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Reflecting the shift which has recently occurred in approaches to languages testing in response to developments in teaching, this book highlights the importance of context, purposiveness and realistic discourse in testing, as in teaching.
Author : Lyle F. Bachman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194370035
Offers a discussion of the basic concerns which underlie the development and use of language tests. Presenting a synthesis of research on testing, this book is useful for students on teacher education courses. It is also helpful for those professionally involved in designing and administering tests, acting as a complement to 'how to' books.
Author : Peter S. Green
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287110527
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309675480
The United States is formally represented around the world by approximately 14,000 Foreign Service officers and other personnel in the U.S. Department of State. Roughly one-third of them are required to be proficient in the local languages of the countries to which they are posted. To achieve this language proficiency for its staff, the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) provides intensive language instruction and assesses the proficiency of personnel before they are posted to a foreign country. The requirement for language proficiency is established in law and is incorporated in personnel decisions related to job placement, promotion, retention, and pay. A Principled Approach to Language Assessment: Considerations for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute evaluates the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency that FSI could potentially use. This report considers the key assessment approaches in the research literature that are appropriate for language testing, including, but not limited to, assessments that use task-based or performance-based approaches, adaptive online test administration, and portfolios.
Author : James Dean Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521000831
Criterion-referenced Language Testing looks at the practical applications of this new area of language testing.
Author : Cyril J. Weir
Publisher :
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780139475320
This book attempts to develop a framework for constructing language tests which is consistent wirth a wide range of theoretical insights. The central aim is that it should provide teachers with the means of writing better tests.
Author : Timothy Francis McNamara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194372220
This book offers a succinct theoretical introduction to the basic concepts in language testing in a way that is easy to understand. In the Japanese context, this book is highly recommended for university faculty members involved in obtaining assessment literacy, teachers who want to validate their exploratory teaching and testing, or applied linguistics students new to the language testing field. The book is divided into four main sections. The first provides an overview of the principles of language testing. The next contains short extracts from the testing literature with questions which stimulate further thinking. Section 3 is a list of references with brief annotations and Section 4 a glossary of referenced testing terms.
Author : Dan Douglas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521584957
This book is the first to examine implementation of tests for specific purposes.
Author : Janna D. Fox
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0776616315
Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a copy of this book. The information, discussions, and reflections offered within the volume address major developments within the field over the past decades, enlivened by current "takes" on these issues. The real value of this collection, however, lies in its consideration of the past as a means of defining the future agenda of language testing.
Author : H. Douglas Brown
Publisher : Pearson Education ESL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Language acquisition
ISBN : 9780134860220
Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices is designed to offer a comprehensive survey of essential principles and tools for second language assessment. Its first and second editions have been successfully used in teacher-training courses, teacher certification curricula, and TESOL master of arts programs. As the third in a trilogy of teacher education textbooks, it is designed to follow H. Douglas Brown's other two books, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (sixth edition, Pearson Education, 2014) and Teaching by Principles(fourth edition, Pearson Education, 2015). References to those two books are made throughout the current book. Language Assessment features uncomplicated prose and a systematic, spiraling organization. Concepts are introduced with practical examples, understandable explanations, and succinct references to supportive research. The research literature on language assessment can be quite complex and assume that readers have technical knowledge and experience in testing. By the end of Language Assessment, however, readers will have gained access to this not-so-frightening field. They will have a working knowledge of a number of useful, fundamental principles of assessment and will have applied those principles to practical classroom contexts. They will also have acquired a storehouse of useful tools for evaluating and designing practical, effective assessment techniques for their classrooms.
