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Author : Edgar Dale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Test Your Language Skill written by Edgar Dale and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lily I-Wen Su
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351254006
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book English Language Proficiency Testing in Asia written by Lily I-Wen Su and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the demand for English language education grows in Asia, there has been a parallel growth in the development and implementation of standardized tests at the local level. Offering much-needed context on locally produced tests in Asia, contributors examine emerging models for English language assessment and the impact these large-scale tests have on the teaching and learning of English. Chapters address the following well-known and developing high-stakes tests in different regions across Asia: the GEPT, the TEPS, the VSTEP, the CET, the EIKEN and TEAP, and the ELPA. Brought together by world-renowned testing assessment scholar Cyril Weir and the Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC), one of Asia’s leading testing institutions based in Taiwan, this volume is a useful reference for evaluating, developing, and validating local tests of English and their societal impact. Comprehensive and research-based, chapters cover historic backgrounds, sociocultural contexts, test quality, international standing, and future considerations. Ideal for graduate students, researchers, and scholars in language assessment, TESOL/TEFL, and applied linguistics, this book will also be of interest to language teaching professionals, language test developers, and graduate students in Asian studies and international education, intercultural communication, and intercultural studies.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309216737
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the allocation of federal funds for programs to assist these students to be proficient in English became formula-based: 80 percent on the basis of the population of children with limited English proficiency1 and 20 percent on the basis of the population of recently immigrated children and youth. Title III of NCLB directs the U.S. Department of Education to allocate funds on the basis of the more accurate of two allowable data sources: the number of students reported to the federal government by each state education agency or data from the American Community Survey (ACS). The department determined that the ACS estimates are more accurate, and since 2005, those data have been basis for the federal distribution of Title III funds. Subsequently, analyses of the two data sources have raised concerns about that decision, especially because the two allowable data sources would allocate quite different amounts to the states. In addition, while shortcomings were noted in the data provided by the states, the ACS estimates were shown to fluctuate between years, causing concern among the states about the unpredictability and unevenness of program funding. In this context, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the National Research Council to address the accuracy of the estimates from the two data sources and the factors that influence the estimates. The resulting book also considers means of increasing the accuracy of the data sources or alternative data sources that could be used for allocation purposes.
Author : Steve Kaufmann
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1420873296
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Way of the Linguist written by Steve Kaufmann and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.
Author : Randall L. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Testing Language Proficiency written by Randall L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309675480
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 2020-09-19 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.
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 : Joan Gerard
Publisher : Academic Therapy Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780878792832
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Language Proficiency Test (LPT) written by Joan Gerard and published by Academic Therapy Publications. This book was released on 1981-09-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LPT is especially appropriate for the identification of competency levels and for the detection of specific language deficiencies of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students and for native English speaking students who may be learning handicapped or educationally deprived. This comprehensive language test assesses a wide range of English language abilities and uses materials that are appropriate for older students.
Author : Richard McMunn
Publisher : How2Become Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907558217
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Psychometric Tests (the Ultimate Guide) written by Richard McMunn and published by How2Become Ltd. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald D. Hammill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Test of Language Development-2 written by Donald D. Hammill and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measures language skills in the areas of both listening and speaking, including visual and oral vocabulary, word articulation and discrimination, grammar, and comprehension. Primary for children ages 4 to 8, intermediate for ages 8 to 12.
Author : Tim McNamara
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405155434
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Language Testing written by Tim McNamara and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-11-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Josephine B. Wolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book English Your Language written by Josephine B. Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521658764
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Language Testing written by Alan Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary of Language Testing contains some 600 entries on language assessment
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681255323
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)
Download or read book TEST OF INTEGRATED LANGUAGE AND LITERACY SKILLS TILLS EXAMINER'S KIT written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard McMunn
Publisher : How2Become Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907558721
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (75 download)
Download or read book How to Pass Verbal Reasoning Tests written by Richard McMunn and published by How2Become Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ute Knoch
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781781799512
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Scoring Second Language Spoken and Written Performance written by Ute Knoch and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2021 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to speak and write effectively is widely recognized as an important skill in many contexts and for many purposes, both personal, educational and professional. Because these skills are considered important in second and foreign language learning contexts, they are often included in performance assessments. The scoring of such performances is, however, a complex undertaking and has attracted much attention, both in first and second language learning contexts. The increasing use of automated scoring systems has added to this complexity in recent years. It is therefore all the more surprising that there is no book available that provides an overview of this topic area - the scoring of second language performances. This monograph fills this gap, by drawing together the latest literature in the area. It focusses on issues relating to both rater-mediated assessments and sets out consideration in relation to automated scoring systems (and other technology) which are increasingly used in our field. This monograph provides a useful introduction to graduate students, researchers, test developers, other practitioners and teachers to this topic which has in many ways dominated the field of language assessment over many decades.
Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book English Solved Papers written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023-24 UPTET/CTET English Solved Papers
