Exploring language assessment and testing : language in action / / Anthony Green

• Autore: Green Anthony <1966->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , [2021]
• Edizione: Second edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 418.00287; 418.0076
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Ability testing; Language and languages - Study and teaching
• Note generali: "First edition published by Routledge 2014".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Permissions -- Acknowledgements -- Series editors' introduction -- Part I -- 1 Putting language assessment in its place -- Language as evidence about people -- Assessment and testing -- 2 Purposes for assessment -- Purposes for assessment -- Educational assessment in teaching and learning -- Different worlds or shared spaces? -- 3 The practice of language assessment -- Building quality systems for language assessment -- Effective assessment comes at a PRICE -- The assessment cycle -- 4 The qualities of effective assessment systems -- Four qualities of useful assessments -- Practicality -- Reliability -- Validity -- Interpretative arguments: assessing the evidence -- Assessments as maps -- Beneficial consequences -- Summary: the right tool for the job -- Part II -- 5 Assessing receptive skills -- Defining reading and listening abilities -- Assessing grammar and vocabulary -- Preparing items for assessing reading and listening -- Trying out material -- Scoring performance -- Standard setting -- 6 Assessing productive and interactive skills -- Defining productive and interactive language abilities -- Purposes for assessment -- Assessment design -- Speaking tasks -- Task review -- Trying out material -- Scoring performance -- Using computers to score performance -- Score reporting and feedback -- Standard setting -- Part III -- 7 Multiplication and division: trends in language assessment -- Introduction -- The growth of a profession -- What to assess? Constructs -- Conflicting and shifting views of language education -- Objections to discrete point testing -- Integrative testing -- The mastery learning movement -- Language aptitude -- Behavioural objectives -- Two approaches to score interpretation. ; Pragmatic tests and the unitary competence hypothesis -- The 'promised land' of communicative testing -- Rapprochement: communicative language ability -- Developments in formative assessment -- Assessment wars: teacher assessment versus external tests -- Ethical and critical language assessment -- Higher, wider, deeper: some emerging trends in language assessment -- Last words -- 8 Commentary on tasks -- Glossary -- Further reading -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics series takes 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. Exploring Language Assessment and Testing offers a straightforward and accessible introduction that starts from real-world experiences and uses practical examples to introduce the reader to the academic field of language assessment and testing. Extensively updated, with additional features such as reader tasks (with extensive commentaries from the author), a glossary of key terms and an annotated further reading section, this second edition provides coverage of recent theoretical and technological developments and explores specific purposes for assessment. Including concrete models and examples to guide readers into the relevant literature, this book also offers practical guidance for educators and researchers on designing, developing and using assessments. Providing an inclusive and impartial survey of both classroom-based assessment by teachers and larger-scale testing, this is an indispensable introduction for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students studying Language Education, Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring language assessment and testing
• ISBN: 1-00-310579-3; 1-000-33219-5; 1-000-33205-5; 1-003-10579-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910861989403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II