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Author : Arthur Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521484954
This second edition remains the most practical guide to testing language. It has a new chapter on testing young learners.
Author : Arthur Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-11-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521272602
The main objective of this text is to assist language teachers in writing better tests. The author defines a good test as one that contains validity, reliability, practicality and a positive reaction. Hughes offers practical and realistic guidance on how to create a good test. The author pays special attention to the effect of testing on teaching - a test should not only be reliable and valid but should also have a positive effect on teaching. Chapters on the testing of writing, oral ability, reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary, and test administration are included. Also included are testing techniques that have been proven to be useful for teachers, and statistics that enable teachers to interpret test results. Reader activities can be found at the end of each chapter.
Author : Arthur Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521823250
This second edition remains the most practical guide to testing language. It has a new chapter on testing young learners.
Author : Greta Gorsuch
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527542099
Classroom tests are an everyday feature of second and foreign language classrooms worldwide. Teachers spend a lot of time and energy making and using tests, and learners spend of lot of time and energy taking them. Nonetheless, such assessments are under-studied, as they are considered routine. This volume illuminates this little-researched area. Featuring fifteen classroom language tests made and used by Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish teachers, the book includes parallel teacher commentary and testing content chapters that transparently probe the teachers’ processes of making and using their tests. Rather than view teachers’ tests as poor shadows of what professional test writers do, this work identifies the reasoning behind teachers’ tests. In addition, focused testing content chapters take examples directly from the actual tests and the accompanying teacher commentary. This book is an accessible, applied resource for second and foreign language teachers, language program administrators working with teachers, students in teacher preparation and enrichment programs, and scholars in language teaching, learning, and testing.
Author : Dana R. Ferris,John S. Hedgcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136696640
This popular, comprehensive theory-to-practice text is designed to help teachers understand the task of writing, L2 writers, the different pedagogical models used in current composition teaching, and reading–writing connections. Moving from general themes to specific pedagogical concerns, it includes practice-oriented chapters on the role of genre, task construction, course and lesson design, writing assessment, feedback, error treatment, and classroom language (grammar, vocabulary, style) instruction. Although all topics are firmly grounded in relevant research, a distinguishing feature of the text is the array of hands-on, practical examples, materials, and tasks that pre- and in-service teachers can use to develop the complex skills involved in teaching second language writing. Each chapter includes Questions for Reflection, Further Reading and Resources, Reflection and Review, and Application Activities. An ideal text for L2 teacher preparation courses, courses that include both L1 and L2 students, and workshops for instructors of L2 writers in academic (secondary and postsecondary) settings, the accessible synthesis of theory and research enables readers to see the relevance of the field’s knowledge base to their own present or future classroom settings and student writers.
Author : Martin Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521426669
This book contains 40 tasks of two types: discussion tasks and classroom-based tasks.
Author : Lyle Bachman,Barbara Damböck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780194218368
This book provides teachers with an entirely new approach to developing and using classroom-based language assessments. This approach is based on current theory and practice in the field of language assessment and on an understanding of the assessment needs of classroom teachers. The following key questions are addressed: • Why do I need to assess? What beneficial consequences do I want to help bring about? How can my assessments help my students learn better and help me improve my teaching? • When and how often do I need to assess? What decisions do I need to make to help bring about these beneficial consequences? • What do I need to assess? How can I define the abilities that I want to assess? • How can I assess my students? What kinds of assessment tasks should I create? How can I score my students’ responses to these tasks? The authors guide the reader step-by-step through the process of developing and using classroom-based assessments with clear explanations and definitions of key terms, illustrative examples, and activities for applying the approach in practice. Extra resources are available on the website: www.oup.com/elt/teacher/lact Lyle Bachman is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He serves as a consultant in language testing research projects and in developing language assessments for universities and government agencies around the world, and he conducts courses and training workshops in language assessment. Barbara Damböck was Director of Studies of the English Department at the Teacher Training Academy in Dillingen, Germany, from 2003 to 2011. From 2003 to 2017 she supervised the training of oral examiners for the certification examination for elementary school English teachers in Bavaria. She has extensive experience as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer, and teacher of teacher trainers. She conducts courses and workshops for teachers and teacher trainers around the world.
Author : Anthony Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134516629
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are also ideal for language professionals returning to academic study. The books take an innovative 'practice to theory' approach, with a 'back-to-front' structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and issues, through a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns, before finally relating these practical issues to theoretical foundations. Additional features include tasks with commentaries, a glossary of key terms, and an annotated further reading section. Exploring Language Assessment and Testing is a straightforward introduction to the field that provides an inclusive and impartial survey of both classroom based assessment by teachers and larger scale testing, using concrete examples to guide students to the relevant literature. Ranging from theory to classroom based scenarios, the author provides practical guidance on designing, developing and using assessments, with flexible, step by step processes for improving the quality of tests and assessment systems to make them fairer and more accurate. This book is an indispensable introduction to the areas of language assessment and testing, and will be of interest to language teachers as well as postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students studying Language Education, Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment.
Author : Betty Lanteigne,Christine Coombe,James Dean Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813342323
This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world. It investigates problematic practices in language testing which are relevant to language test users such as language program directors, testing centers, and language teachers, as well as teachers-in-training in Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programs. These issues involve aspects of language testing such as test development, test administration, scoring, and interpretation/use of test results. Chapters in this volume discuss insights about language testing policy, testing world languages, developing program-level language tests and tests of specific language skills, and language assessment literacy. In addition, this book identifies two needs in language testing for further examination: the need for collaboration between language test developers, language test users, and language users, and the need to base language tests on real-world language use.
Author : Arthr Hugghes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:906780288
Author : Glenn Fulcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317873679
The testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process. Glenn Fulcher's Testing Second Language Speaking is a state-of-the-art volume that considers the assessment of speaking from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The book offers the first systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the testing of second language speaking. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it covers: Explanations of the process of test design Costing test design projects How to put the test into practice Evaluation of speaking tests Task types for testing speaking Testing learners with disabilities It also contains a wealth of examples, including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests and specific methodologies that teachers, students and test developers may use in their own projects. Successfully integrating practice and theory, this book demystifies the process of testing speaking and provides a thorough treatment of the key ethical and technical issues in speaking evaluation.
Author : Janna D. Fox,Mari Wesche ,Doreen Bayliss
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780776616315
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 : Liying Cheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Nic Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987-05-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521312769
A practical guide taking the reader through the testing process, giving practical examples and discussing the issues involved at each stage.
Author : Liying Cheng,Janna Fox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137464842
This book makes a unique contribution to classroom assessment literature, linking teacher-friendly examples to scholarly work and current research in the field, and providing comprehensive, hands-on information on core concepts in accessible terms. Examples of real activities and questions for reflection and discussion aim to enrich understanding.