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Author : Topou Pulu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Guidelines for the Selection, Adaptation and Development of Language Proficiency Tests written by Topou Pulu and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lau and Its Effects on Bilingual Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309675510
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)
Download or read book A Principled Approach to Language Assessment written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Tests and Testing for Bilingual Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Charles Alderson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441147594
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency written by J. Charles Alderson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-08-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the need for tests that can diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in learners' developing foreign language proficiency. It presents the rationale for, and research surrounding, the development of DIALANG, a suite of internet-delivered diagnostic foreign language tests funded by the European Commission. The word 'diagnosis' is common in discussions in language education and applied linguistics, but very few truly diagnostic tests exist. However, the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency is central to helping learners make progress. This volume explores the nature of diagnostic testing, emphasizing the need for a better understanding of the nature of appropriate diagnosis. The book starts with a debate about how diagnostic testing might most appropriately be developed. Charles Alderson argues that the field has neglected to construct diagnostic tests, partly because other forms of testing have dominated the field. Alderson examines how proficiency has been diagnosed in the key areas of language: reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary. The value of self-assessment is discussed and exemplified as a key component in developing learners', and teachers', awareness of the complexity of language learning. The book ends with a consideration of and recommendations for future developments in the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency.
Author : Betty Lanteigne
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813342323
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Challenges in Language Testing Around the World written by Betty Lanteigne and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Heidi Byrnes
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Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Defining and Developing Proficiency written by Heidi Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald K. Hambleton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135676577
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment written by Ronald K. Hambleton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will critically examine the "do's" & "don'ts" in adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research.
Author : Sarinee Anivan
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Current Developments in Language Testing written by Sarinee Anivan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selection of papers on language testing includes: "Language Testing in the 1990s: How Far Have We Come? How Much Further Have We To Go?" (J. Charles Alderson); "Current Research/Development in Language Testing" (John W. Oller, Jr.); "The Difficulties of Difficulty: Prompts in Writing Assessment" (Liz Hamp-Lyons, Sheila Prochnow); "The Validity of Writing Test Tasks" (John Read); "Affective Factors in the Assessment of Oral Interaction: Gender and Status" (Don Porter); "Authenticity in Foreign Language Testing" (Peter Doye); "Evaluating Communicative Tests" (Keith Morrow); "Materials-Based Tests: How Well Do They Work?" (Michael Milanovic); "Defining Language Ability: The Criteria for Criteria" (Geoff Brindley); "The Role of Item Response Theory in Language Test Validation" (T.F. McNamara); "The International English Language Testing System IELTS: Its Nature and Development" (D.E. Ingram); "A Comparative Analysis of Simulated and Direct Oral Proficiency Interviews" (Charles W. Stansfield); "Southeast Asian Languages Proficiency Examinations" (James Dean Brown, H. Gary Cook, Charles Lockhart, Teresita Ramos); "Continuous Assessment in the Oral Communication Class: Teacher Constructed Test" (Shanta Nair-Venugopal); and "What We Can Do with Computerized Adaptive Testing ... And What We Cannot Do!" (Michel Laurier). (MSE).
Author : E. Dean Coon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bilingual-bicultural Education in Alaska written by E. Dean Coon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Douglas Brown
Publisher : Pearson Education ESL
ISBN 13 : 9780134860220
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Language Assessment written by H. Douglas Brown and published by Pearson Education ESL. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Dean Brown
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Testing in Language Programs written by James Dean Brown and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series for teachers and teacher trainers gives sound, straightforward advice on good teaching methods, and practical suggestions for lessons and activities. This book teaches how to develop and/or adapt all types of language testing. -- Teachers and administrators learn how to make responsible and professional proficiency, placement, diagnostic, and achievement decisions, as well as how to design tests for program-level decisions and classroom-level decisions. -- Topics include: types and uses of tests; developing, adapting, and improving tests; describing results and interpreting scores; correlation; test reliability; test validity and standards testing; and testing and curriculum.
Author : Glenn Fulcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136590862
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing written by Glenn Fulcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016 The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing will provide a comprehensive account of the area of language assessment and testing. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together approximately 35 authoritative articles (around 8000 words each). The proposed outline for the Handbook (below) is divided into ten sections. The section titles reflect the contents of their Language Testing and Assessment –textbook in our RAL series and sketch a useful overview of the discipline. Each chapter has been carefully selected to relate to key issues raised in the respective topic, providing additional historical background, critical discussion, reviews of key research methods, and an assessment of what the future might hold.
Author : Dragoş Iliescu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107110122
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations written by Dragoş Iliescu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a practical but scientifically grounded step-by-step approach to the adaptation of tests in linguistic and cultural contexts.
Author : Andrew D. Cohen
Publisher : Newbury House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Testing Language Ability in the Classroom written by Andrew D. Cohen and published by Newbury House. This book was released on 1980 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kassem Wahba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136781633
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century written by Kassem Wahba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume offers an introduction to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign or second language. Recent growth in student numbers and the demand for new and more diverse Arabic language programs of instruction have created a need that has outpaced the ability of teacher preparation programs to provide sufficient numbers of well-qualified professional teachers at the level of skill required. Arabic language program administrators anticipate that the increases in enrollment will continue into the next decades. More resources and more varied materials are seriously needed in Arabic teacher education and training. The goal of this Handbook is to address that need. The most significant feature of this volume is its pioneer role in approaching the field of Arabic language teaching from many different perspectives. It offers readers the opportunity to consider the role, status, and content of Arabic language teaching in the world today. The Handbook is intended as a resource to be used in building Arabic language and teacher education programs and in guiding future academic research. Thirty-four chapters authored by leaders in the field are organized around nine themes: *Background of Arabic Language Teaching; *Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching; *Communicative Competence in Arabic; *The Learners; *Assessment; *Technology Applications; *Curriculum Development, Design, and Models; *Arabic Language Program Administration and Management; and *Planning for the Future of Arabic Language Learning and Teaching. The Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century will benefit and be welcomed by Arabic language teacher educators and trainers, administrators, graduate students, and scholars around the world. It is intended to create dialogue among scholars and professionals in the field and in related fields--dialogue that will contribute to creating new models for curriculum and course design, materials and assessment tools, and ultimately, better instructional effectiveness for all Arabic learners everywhere, in both Arabic-speaking and non-Arabic speaking countries.
