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Author : Nic Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Glenn Fulcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317873686
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 : James Robert Frith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039024059
Author : Arthur Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Sari Luoma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521800525
This book takes teachers and language testers through the research on the assessment of speaking.
Author : Anne Lazaraton,University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521002677
This book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework.
Author : Barry O'Sullivan
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English language
ISBN : 3631560982
When we use a language we are always aware of our audience. This awareness is reflected, for example, in changes to the way we speak to the same person in different contexts or to different people in the same context. This book explores the way in which test takers' language can change in test events depending on either real or perceived similarities or differences between themselves and their interlocutors. The series of five studies reported are designed to explore aspects of test-taker performance on tests of speaking, and in doing so provide evidence in support of a proposed model of speaking test performance. Though the studies focus primarily on the effect on test-taker performance of characteristics associated with their interlocutor, they also provide empirical evidence of interactions between the factors. There are clear implications from the findings for all of those people involved in language testing and in researching spoken language.
Author : Marysia Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300129441
The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a widely accepted instrument for assessing second and foreign language ability. It is used by the Foreign Language Institute, the Defense Language Institute, Educational Testing Service, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and at many universities in the United States. The Art of Non-Conversation examines the components of speaking ability and asks whether the OPI is a valid instrument for assessing them. Marysia Johnson applies the latest insights from discourse and conversational analysis to determine the nature of the OPI's communicative speech event and investigate its construct validity within Messick's definition of validity. She discusses models of speaking ability, among others several communicative competence models, an interactional competence model, and a model of spoken interaction based on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of learning. Finally she proposes a new model to test language proficiency drawn from sociocultural theory, one that considers language ability to be reflective of the sociocultural and institutional contexts in which the language has been acquired.
Author : Gillian Brown,George Yule
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521273846
After a description of the features of spoken English, this text considers how they differ from the features of written language. The text describes practical techniques for teaching listening comprehension and speaking, which apply to ESL and foreign languages as well as English.
Author : Janna D. Fox,Mari Wesche ,Doreen Bayliss
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Desmond Allison
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9971692260
This book brings together two related fields - language testing and language programme evaluation - in a way that no single introductory text has done, and seeks to encourage closer relations between the two in both academic curricula and professional practice. It introduces readers not just to basic concepts, but to some of the major social, educational and research concerns and activities that characterise language testing and evaluation. The book can serve either as a basic text for a taught course, or for self-study. All chapters include suggestions for further reading, and discussions frequently point towards possible explorations in classroom research and practice. A glossary of key concepts and a select annotated bibliography are provided. The book addresses the language teaching profession generally as well as students of applied linguistics and English language teaching.
Author : Tim McNamara,Carsten Roever
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405155434
Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing 2009 This volume focuses on the social aspects of language testing, including assessment of socially situated language use and societal consequences of language tests. The authors argue that traditional approaches to ensuring social fairness in tests go some way to addressing social concerns, but a broader perspective is necessary to examine the functions of tests on a societal scale. Considers these issues in relation to language assessment in oral proficiency interviews, and to the assessment of second language pragmatics. Argues that traditional approaches to ensuring social fairness in tests go some way to addressing social concerns, but a broader perspective is necessary if we are to fully understand the social dimension of language assessment.
Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521658768
This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessment
Author : Klaus Zechner,Keelan Evanini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351676113
Automated Speaking Assessment: Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech provides a thorough overview of state-of-the-art automated speech scoring technology as it is currently used at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Its main focus is related to the automated scoring of spontaneous speech elicited by TOEFL iBT Speaking section items, but other applications of speech scoring, such as for more predictable spoken responses or responses provided in a dialogic setting, are also discussed. The book begins with an in-depth overview of the nascent field of automated speech scoring—its history, applications, and challenges—followed by a discussion of psychometric considerations for automated speech scoring. The second and third parts discuss the integral main components of an automated speech scoring system as well as the different types of automatically generated measures extracted by the system features related to evaluate the speaking construct of communicative competence as measured defined by the TOEFL iBT Speaking assessment. Finally, the last part of the book touches on more recent developments, such as providing more detailed feedback on test takers’ spoken responses using speech features and scoring of dialogic speech. It concludes with a discussion, summary, and outlook on future developments in this area. Written with minimal technical details for the benefit of non-experts, this book is an ideal resource for graduate students in courses on Language Testing and Assessment as well as teachers and researchers in applied linguistics.
Author : Lynda Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521736701
An up-to-date review of the relevant literature on assessing speaking.