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Author : Cyril Weir,Yang Huizhong,Jin Yan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521653817
This volume reports on the development of the Advanced English Reading Test in China.
Author : Jufang Kong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811370212
This book explores the construct of reading comprehension by means of two main test methods. Research methods like the think aloud protocol and eye tracking are employed to tap into test-takers’ cognitive processes while engaged in input text meaning building, and in test tasks. The book is the first systematic attempt to explore test-takers’ cognitive processes through the control of test methods, and presents findings in visualized form including processing route maps and eye fixation heat maps. It offers readers essential support with “digging into” and analyzing data that has to date remained difficult to access.
Author : Toshihiko Shiotsu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521157278
The book investigates the linguistic and processing factors underpinning Japanese EFL learners' reading comprehension performance.
Author : William Grabe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521729742
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Author : Ardeshir Geranpayeh,Lynda B. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107602632
This volume examines the nature of second language listening proficiency and how it can be assessed. The book highlights the need for test developers to provide a clear explication of the ability constructs which underpin the tests they offer in the public domain. This is increasingly necessary if claims about the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically and with empirical evidence. It operationalises a comprehensive test validation framework which adopts a socio-cognitive perspective. The framework embraces six core components, examining and then analysing Cambridge ESOL listening tasks from the following perspectives: Test Taker; Cognitive Validity; Context Validity; Scoring Validity; Criterion-related Validity; and Consequential Validity.
Author : Lynda B. Taylor,Lynda Taylor,Cyril J. Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107602649
This volume reports research that informs the development of reading and listening assessment in IELTS. This volume brings together a set of eight IELTS-related research studies - four on reading and four on listening - conducted between 2005 and 2010. Findings from these studies provide valuable evidence on the validity, reliability, impact and practicality of the IELTS test; they are also instrumental in highlighting aspects needing attention, and thus directly inform the continuing evolution of the IELTS reading and listening tests. The volume reviews and comments on the specific contribution of each study to the ongoing process of IELTS reading and listening test design and development.
Author : Cyril J. Weir,Ivana Vidaković,Evelina D. Galaczi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107677692
This volume establishes how English language constructs were measured in Cambridge English examinations over the period 1913 to 2012. An addition to the Studies in Language Testing series, this volume provides an overview of English language testing over the last century, with coverage of key theoretical and practical aspects of the assessment of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. It includes examples of the Cambridge English exams, old and new, and is the first volume to describe in a systematic way the different theoretical influences which have shaped the development of the constructs underlying Cambridge English exams in the last 100 years.
Author : Lily I-Wen Su,Cyril J. Weir,Jessica R. W. Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351254007
As the demand for English language education grows in Asia, there has been a parallel growth in the development and implementation of standardized tests at the local level. Offering much-needed context on locally produced tests in Asia, contributors examine emerging models for English language assessment and the impact these large-scale tests have on the teaching and learning of English. Chapters address the following well-known and developing high-stakes tests in different regions across Asia: the GEPT, the TEPS, the VSTEP, the CET, the EIKEN and TEAP, and the ELPA. Brought together by world-renowned testing assessment scholar Cyril Weir and the Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC), one of Asia’s leading testing institutions based in Taiwan, this volume is a useful reference for evaluating, developing, and validating local tests of English and their societal impact. Comprehensive and research-based, chapters cover historic backgrounds, sociocultural contexts, test quality, international standing, and future considerations. Ideal for graduate students, researchers, and scholars in language assessment, TESOL/TEFL, and applied linguistics, this book will also be of interest to language teaching professionals, language test developers, and graduate students in Asian studies and international education, intercultural communication, and intercultural studies.
Author : Lynda Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521736701
An up-to-date review of the relevant literature on assessing speaking.
Author : Evelina D. Galaczi,Cyril J. Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107677029
This book explores the impact of language frameworks on learning, teaching and assessment, viewed from the perspective of policies, procedures and challenges. It brings together a selection of edited papers, based on presentations given at the 4th International Conference of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) held in Kraków, Poland, in July 2011. The selected papers focus on the conference's core themes as follows: the effect of frameworks on teaching, learning and assessment; the value of frameworks for teachers, learners and language policymakers; the contribution of frameworks towards describing particular languages.
Author : Rahma Al-Mahrooqi,Adrian Roscoe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443860703
Reading, a complex and multi-faceted skill, is essential for life and academic success. While its mysteries still baffle first-language research, the nature of reading in a foreign language presents an even greater puzzle. However, given reading’s importance for EFL students who study their specializations in English, and whose future employment may depend on their competence in it, researchers must continue to investigate foreign language reading and devise ways of improving students’ capacity for it. Hence, this book, with its thorough coverage of up-to-date theory, practice and research, will be of great value in today’s educational context. As they strive to understand reading and help EFL students to acquire it, researchers and language teachers will find much of value here.
Author : Stuart D. Shaw,Cyril J. Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521692938
Test developers need to provide a clear explication of the language ability constructs that underpin the tests they offer in the public domain; such an explication is essential for supporting claims about the validity - or usefulness - of test scores. This volume describes the theory and practice of Cambridge ESOL's approach to assessing second language writing ability. A comprehensive test validation framework is used to examine the tasks in Cambridge ESOL writing tests from a number of different validity perspectives that reflect the socio-cognitive nature of any assessment event. The authors show how an understanding and analysis of the framework and its components can assist test developers to operationalise their tests more effectively, especially in relation to the key criteria that differentiate one proficiency level from another. The book provides: an up-to-date review of relevant literature on assessing writing, an accessible and systematic description of the different proficiency levels in second language writing, a comprehensive and coherent basis for validating tests of writing. This volume is a rich source of information on all aspects of examining writing ability. As such, it will be of considerable interest to examination boards who wish to validate their own writing tests in a systematic and coherent manner, as well as to academic researchers and students in the field of language assessment more generally. Book jacket.
Author : Angela Hasselgreen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521544726
This book reports on a two-part study: the validation of a test of spoken English for Norwegian secondary school pupils and the corpus-based investigation of the role played by 'smallwords', such as 'well', 'sort of', and 'you know', in bringing about fluency. The first study builds on the Messickian six central aspects of construct validity to produce a practical framework for test validation. It identifies potential sources of invalidity in the test being examined particularly relating to 'fluency'. The second study sets about to explore the concept of fluency, and to expose the extent to which it is acknowledged in the literature to be associated with smallwords, albeit under other names. The findings from the corpus study are drawn on to propose new elements to include in descriptors of fluency, and the implications of the study for classroom practices are discussed.
Author : Liying Cheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521544734
There has been growing interest in recent years in the influence of tests on teaching and learning - a phenomenon commonly referred to as 'washback'. Despite persistent assertions about its nature and scope, empirical studies investigating test washback are still limited in number, and few of these make use of both qualitative and quantitative methods in washback research. This volume presents a study of how the introduction of the 1996 Hong Kong Certificate of Education in English - a high stakes public examination - impacted on classroom teaching and learning in Hong Kong secondary schools. The washback effect was observed initially at the larger 'macro' level, among different stakeholder groups within the Hong Kong educational context; and also at the more local 'micro' level, in terms of teachers' attitudes, teaching content and classroom interactions. This study: provides a theoretical background to the washback concept, discusses the need for empirical investigation of washback, describes the use of a mixed methodology approach in washback research, offers insights into the role of tests as agents of innovation and change in the classroom and broader educational context. This volume will be of particular relevance to language test developers and researchers interested in the consequential validity of tests; it will also be of interest to teachers, curriculum designers, policymakers and others in education concerned with the interface between language testing and teaching practices/programs. Book jacket.
Author : Waldemar Martyniuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521176842
This volume explores the process of aligning language tests with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).