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Revisiting the Assessment of Second Language Abilities: From Theory to Practice

Author : Sahbi Hidri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319628844
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting the Assessment of Second Language Abilities: From Theory to Practice written by Sahbi Hidri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of revisiting the assessment of language abilities. It also showcases how the measurement of such constructs can result in negative or positive washback and how outcomes might be conducive to repercussions that decide on the future of many stakeholders. The 23 chapters were selected among tens of chapters received from different contexts that addressed the issue of revisiting the assessment of language abilities, such as Tunisia, Ukraine, Algeria, Russia, KSA, Sudan, Egypt, Canada, Kurdistan, UK, USA, Iran, Turkey, etc. These contexts have highlighted the necessity to revisit the different constructs which should be assessed with a clear and straightforward foundation on students’ learning objectives and their actual language ability. To do so, most of the chapters present hands-on use of relevant statistical tests that might serve in revisiting the construct definition both theoretically and operationally. Perhaps the sole and intricate question that the authors of these contributions ask is what it means to revisit the assessment of the construct of individualized language ability and how. In addition, the book accentuates the momentousness and significance of reflecting on test fairness and validation as the mainspring and backbone for democratization of assessment. This book appeals to a broad readership, such as English Language Teaching (ELT) practitioners, language teachers, students, testing organizations, policy-makers, test designers, writers of test specifications, testing experts, researchers, program evaluators, especially in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as well as other international contexts.

English Language Teaching Research in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Sahbi Hidri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319985337
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis English Language Teaching Research in the Middle East and North Africa by : Sahbi Hidri

Download or read book English Language Teaching Research in the Middle East and North Africa written by Sahbi Hidri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines a range of English Language Teaching (ELT) research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). While the MENA context has witnessed considerable change in recent years, it has so far been under-represented in ELT research at both the regional and the international level. This book aims to fill that gap by surveying the current state of the field, examining in detail a range of issues and concepts, and suggesting future directions for further research. It will be of interest to ELT researchers and practitioners in general - not just those based in MENA contexts themselves.

Facing Diversity in Child Foreign Language Education

Author : Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030660222
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Facing Diversity in Child Foreign Language Education by : Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow

Download or read book Facing Diversity in Child Foreign Language Education written by Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book uses the concept of diversity in child foreign language education as a major organizing principle. Since a foreign language, most typically English, is taught globally to an increasing number of children, the variability in the process and varied learning outcomes are inescapable phenomena. This book has been constructed on the premise that heterogeneity, first, concerns young language learners, who due to the disparity in the pace of development need appropriately tailored educational solutions, and, second, it refers to a diversity of contexts in which learning takes place. The contexts can be defined on a macroscale (e.g. different countries), mesoscale (e.g. different institutions), and microscale (e.g. specific learner groups). The book consists of four thematic strands. In Part One the learner-internal causes of heterogeneity of young language learners are clarified. Part Two presents a sample of classroom studies in which learner variables, such as gender, learner preferences, and special needs are taken into account. Part Three looks at teaching materials and how they meet learners’ needs. Finally, Part Four highlights diversity issues that teachers should be prepared to face.

Changing Language Assessment

Author : Sahbi Hidri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030422690
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Changing Language Assessment by : Sahbi Hidri

Download or read book Changing Language Assessment written by Sahbi Hidri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book brings together fifteen original empirical studies from a variety of international contexts to provide a detailed exploration of language assessment, testing and evaluation. Language assessment has a key role in the development and implementation of language and educational policies at the national level, and this book examines some of the impacts - both positive and negative - of different skills testing and examination approaches on learning outcomes and individual students' language learning. This book will be of interest to scholars working in applied linguistics and language education, teacher training, testing and evaluation, as well as stakeholders such as practitioners, educators, educational agencies, and test developers.

Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy

Author : Sahbi Hidri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000075796
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy written by Sahbi Hidri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy describes how the elements of language assessment literacy can help teachers gather information about when and how to assess learners, and about using the appropriate assessment tools to interpret results in a fair way. It provides highlights from past and current research, descriptions of assessment processes that enhance LAL, case studies from classrooms, and suggestions for professional dialogue and collaboration. This book will help to foster continuous learning, empower learners and teachers and make them more confident in their assessment tasks, and reassure decision makers that what is going on in assessment meets international benchmarks and standards. It addresses issues like concepts and challenges of assessment, the impacts of reflective feedback on assessment, the ontogenetic nature of assessment literacy, the reliability of classroom-based assessment, and interfaces between teaching and assessment. It fills this gap in the literature by addressing the current status and future challenges of language assessment literacy. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language assessment literacy and English language teaching.

Language Education During the Pandemic

Author : Wissia Fiorucci
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031358554
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Education During the Pandemic by : Wissia Fiorucci

Download or read book Language Education During the Pandemic written by Wissia Fiorucci and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book explores and illustrates successful practices for online assessment and community-building, based on the authors' own classroom practice during and in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic. The authors argue that what has happened during the coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed perspectives on language education, and that if the importance of using online teaching tools in the classroom was dimly understood before the crisis, the language teaching establishment has now fully realized their potential and must continue exploring this further, even as the option to return to in-person teaching becomes widespread. Ranging from online activities to course design, the volume presents a comprehensive outlook at distance learning in modern foreign languages. It does so by focusing on those two aspects that, within an emergency scenario, have proven most challenging, namely: how to assess students in a non-controlled environment and how to foster a sense of community from the confinement of our isolated learning spaces. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in Language Education, as well as teachers and teacher trainees.

Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author : Ahmed, Rashad
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799821188
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities by : Ahmed, Rashad

Download or read book Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Ahmed, Rashad and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s modernized world, digital technology has taken the forefront in all aspects of society, including education. Students have access to numerous electronic devices, which has made online learning materials highly accessible. These technological impacts have blurred the distinction between formal and informal language learning methods. Informally learned English has lost proficiency when assessing student performance. Sizable research is necessary to study and understand the informal methods of language learning using technology. Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the implementation of technological opportunities within informal language teaching methods along with the drawbacks that limit its efficiency. While highlighting topics such as acculturation, student perception, and autonomous applications, this publication explores how learners perform ICT-based activities beyond the classroom and assesses the linguistic gains generated by informal ICT uses. This book is ideally designed for teachers, IT consultants, educational software developers, researchers, policymakers, and academic professionals seeking current research on technological techniques within second language learning and teaching.

Digital Transformation of Education and Learning - Past, Present and Future

Author : Don Passey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030979865
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Digital Transformation of Education and Learning - Past, Present and Future by : Don Passey

Download or read book Digital Transformation of Education and Learning - Past, Present and Future written by Don Passey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP TC 3 Open Conference on Computers in Education, OCCE 2021, held in Tampere, Finland, in August 2021. The 22 full papers and 2 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers discuss key emerging topics and evolving practices in the area of educational computing research. They are organized in the following topical sections: Digital education across educational institutions; National policies and plans for digital competence; Learning with digital technologies; and Management issues.

Toward a Reconceptualization of Second Language Classroom Assessment

Author : Matthew E. Poehner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030350819
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Toward a Reconceptualization of Second Language Classroom Assessment by : Matthew E. Poehner

Download or read book Toward a Reconceptualization of Second Language Classroom Assessment written by Matthew E. Poehner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book responds to the call for praxis in L2 education by documenting recent and ongoing projects around the world that see partnership with classroom teachers as the essential driver for continuing to develop both classroom assessment practice and conceptual frameworks of assessment in support of teaching and learning. Taken together, these partnerships shape the language assessment literacy, the knowledge and skills required for theorizing and conducting assessment activities, of both practitioners and researchers. While united by their orientation to praxis, the chapters offer considerable diversity with regard to languages taught, learner populations included (varying in age and proficiency level), specific innovations covered, research methods employed, and countries in which the work was conducted. As a whole, the book presents a way of engaging in research with practitioners that is likely to stimulate interest among not only language assessment scholars but also those studying second language education and language teacher education as well as language teaching professionals themselves.

Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings

Author : Silvia Melo-Pfeifer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000955621
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings written by Silvia Melo-Pfeifer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. Offering theoretical and practical lenses, it contributes towards an integrated and holistic assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. The book provides both theoretical considerations and empirical approaches around how the specificities of plurilingual learners can be considered when assessing their various competences. It covers topics relating to learners in a variety of plurilingual settings: from the education of adult immigrants, assessment of young refugees and assessment of students in school and university, to the assessment of plurilingual competence in foreign language education. Showcasing a wide range of international authors, the book provides cutting-edge research in the domain of multilingual foreign, second and heritage language assessment, and assessment of content knowledge of plurilingual students. It bridges the gap between the fields of language policies and practices, research on plurilingual competence, and assessment in language education. Providing new insights into a crucial and contentious issue, this volume will be an essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of educational language policies, applied linguistics and multilingualism, in particular those involved in the assessment of plurilingual competence.

Handbook of Second Language Assessment

Author : Dina Tsagari
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501500864
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Second Language Assessment by : Dina Tsagari

Download or read book Handbook of Second Language Assessment written by Dina Tsagari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language assessment is ubiquitous. It has found its way from education into questions about access to professions and migration. This volume focuses on the main debates and research advances in second language assessment in the last fifty years or so, showing the influence of linguistics, politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and psychometrics. There are four parts which, when taken together, address the principles and practices of second language assessment while considering its impact on society. Read separately, each part addresses a different aspect of the field. Part I deals with the conceptual foundations of second language assessment with chapters on the purposes of assessment, and standards and frameworks, as well as matters of scoring, quality assurance, and test validation. Part II addresses the theory and practice of assessing different second language skills including aspects like intercultural competence and fluency. Part III examines the challenges and opportunities of second language assessment in a range of contexts. In addition to chapters on second language assessment on a national scale, there are chapters on learning-oriented assessment, as well as the uses of second language assessment in the workplace and for migration. Part IV examines a selection of important issues in the field that deserve attention. These include the alignment of language examinations to external frameworks, the increasing use of technology to both deliver and score second language tests, the responsibilities associated with assessing test takers with special needs, the concept of 'voice' in second language assessment, and assessment literacy for teachers and other test and score users.

Developing Second-language Skills

Author : Kenneth Chastain
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Developing Second-language Skills by : Kenneth Chastain

Download or read book Developing Second-language Skills written by Kenneth Chastain and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1988 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Testing Second Language Speaking

Author : Glenn Fulcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317873688
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Testing Second Language Speaking written by Glenn Fulcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

Author : S. Ross
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137003529
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Assessing Second Language Pragmatics written by S. Ross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education

Author : Adriana Raquel Díaz
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783090375
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education by : Adriana Raquel Díaz

Download or read book Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education written by Adriana Raquel Díaz and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite widespread agreement about the need to develop interculturally competent graduates, there is a lack of agreement about how this goal may be achieved in practice. This is significant as universities around the world, particularly in English-speaking countries, have espoused an interculturally-aware vision for their future graduates and turned to language education, as an inherently intercultural activity, to expose students to a world which is linguistically and culturally different from their own. This book focuses on narrowing the gap between the often conflicting theoretical and practical imperatives faced by language teachers in an internationalised higher education context. It does so by providing comprehensive conceptual discussions of emerging critical intercultural language pedagogies as well as empirical accounts and case studies from the frontline.

Global Perspectives on Language Assessment

Author : Spiros Papageorgiou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429795505
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Perspectives on Language Assessment by : Spiros Papageorgiou

Download or read book Global Perspectives on Language Assessment written by Spiros Papageorgiou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives. Covering a broad range of key topics—including scoring processes, test development, and student and teacher perspectives—contributors offer a comprehensive overview of the landscape of language assessment and discuss the consequences and impact for learners, teachers, learning programs, and society. Focusing on the assessment of language proficiency, this volume provides an original compendium of cutting-edge research that will benefit TESOL and TEFL students, language assessment scholars, and language teachers.

Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Sahbi Hidri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319432346
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa by : Sahbi Hidri

Download or read book Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa written by Sahbi Hidri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents evaluation cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context, investigating the various facets of evaluation in different parts of the MENA region and beyond. In 19 chapters, it explores cases from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, the UAE, Turkey, Iran and Morocco. The book highlights the impact of evaluation on a range of stakeholders, arguing that it has repercussions at the individual, societal, economic, cultural and political levels, that it also has an ethical dimension, and that it is tailored to people’s needs, helping them to remain abreast of the effectiveness and efficiency of programs. Further, the book explores controversial issues concerning different evaluation themes, such as teacher and staff evaluation, assessment practices, text genre analysis evaluation, assessment of productive skills, textbook and ICT evaluation, evaluation of ELT certificates and programs, quality assurance, ESP needs analysis, assessment literacy, and dynamic assessment. It addresses key challenges, such as who the “right people” to implement evaluation are, and the appropriate use of evaluation results to avoid any misuse or harm to any stakeholder. In closing, the book calls for further research venues on the relevance of evaluation, testing and assessment in the MENA context and beyond.