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Author : Jan Ate van Ek
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287120038
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Threshold Level 1990 written by Jan Ate van Ek and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Ate van Ek
Publisher : Manhattan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Waystage 1990 written by Jan Ate van Ek and published by Manhattan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and extended version of `Waystage: an intermediary objective below Threshold Level ... by van Ek and Alexander (1977). On cover: Modern languages
Author : Michael Byram
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415332866
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning written by Michael Byram and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook deals with all aspects of contemporary language teaching and its history. Produced for language teaching professionals, it is also useful as a reference work for academic studies at postgraduate level.
Author : John A. Hawkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521184770
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Criterial Features in L2 English written by John A. Hawkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces the theoretical and empirical bases for defining English language learning levels in terms of criterial features.
Author : Roger Hawkey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521736722
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Examining FCE and CAE written by Roger Hawkey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the historical development of the First Certificate in English (FCE) and the Certificate in Advanced English (CAE).
Author : John Leslie Melville Trim
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287132376
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Language Learning for European Citizenship written by John Leslie Melville Trim and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover: Modern languages
Author : Mikyung Kim Wolf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317379047
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners written by Mikyung Kim Wolf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners provides both theoretical and empirical information about assessing the English language proficiency of young learners. Using large-scale standardized English language proficiency assessments developed for international or U.S. contexts as concrete examples, this volume illustrates rigorous processes of developing and validating assessments with considerations of young learners’ unique characteristics. In this volume, young learners are defined as school-age children from approximately 5 to 13 years old, learning English as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL). This volume also discusses innovative ways to assess young learners’ English language abilities based on empirical studies, with each chapter offering stimulating ideas for future research and development work to improve English language assessment practices with young learners. English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners is a useful resource for students, test developers, educators, and researchers in the area of language testing and assessment.
Author : Bernard Spolsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134658729
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Challenges for Language Education and Policy written by Bernard Spolsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, this volume focuses on language users, the ‘people.’ Making creative connections between existing scholarship in language policy and contemporary theory and research in other social sciences, authors from around the world offer new critical perspectives for analyzing language phenomena and language theories, suggesting new meeting points among language users and language policy makers, norms, and traditions in diverse cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. Identifying and expanding on previously neglected aspects of language studies, the book is inspired by the work of Elana Shohamy, whose critical view and innovative work on a broad spectrum of key topics in applied linguistics has influenced many scholars in the field to think “out of the box” and to reconsider some basic commonly held understandings, specifically with regard to the impact of language and languaging on individual language users rather than on the masses.
Author : Liying Cheng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135213860
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book English Language Assessment and the Chinese Learner written by Liying Cheng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This volume addresses a very timely and important topic, and provides both broad and in-depth coverage of a number of large-scale English tests in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and about the Chinese learner.' – Lyle F. Bachman, From the Foreword Building on current theoretical and practical frameworks for English language assessment and testing, this book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date, relevant picture of English language assessment for students in China (Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and for Chinese learners of English around the world. Written by well-recognized international scholars in language testing, it covers: the history of tests and testing systems, issues and challenges, and current research in China both test-designers’ and test-users’ points of view on test development and test validation within a range of political, economical, social, and financial contexts in China theoretical/conceptual perspectives on the use of the English language assessment at different levels, including societal, university, and schools empirical research related specifically to test development, curricular innovation, and test validation Given the long history of objective testing and its extensive use in Chinese society, and considering the sheer number of students taking various tests in English in China and elsewhere, an understanding of the impact of English language testing is essential for anyone involved in testing and assessment issues in China and elsewhere in the world. This is a must-read volume for testing and assessment policy makers, curriculum designers, researchers, ESL/EFL materials writers, graduate students, and English language teachers/researchers at all levels.
Author : Glenn Fulcher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000464660
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing written by Glenn Fulcher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing provides an updated and comprehensive account of the area of language testing and assessment. The volume brings together 35 authoritative articles, divided into ten sections, written by 51 leading specialists from around the world. There are five entirely new chapters covering the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as a new entry on corpus linguistics and language testing. The remaining 30 chapters have been revised, often extensively, or entirely rewritten with new authorship teams at the helm, reflecting new generations of expertise in the field. With a dedicated section on technology in language testing, reflecting current trends in the field, the Handbook also includes an extended epilogue written by Harding and Fulcher, contemplating what has changed between the first and second editions and charting a trajectory for the field of language testing and assessment. Providing a basis for discussion, project work, and the design of both language tests themselves and related validation research, this Handbook represents an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners working in language testing and assessment and the wider field of language education.
Author : Christine Coombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017149
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment written by Christine Coombe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Assessment aims to present in one volume an up-to-date guide to the central areas of assessing the second language performance of English by speakers of other languages. This volume provides snapshots of significant issues and trends that have shaped language assessment in the past and highlights the current state of our understanding of these issues"--
Author : Dina Tsagari
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614513821
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
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 462 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.
Author : Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation. Education Committee. Modern Languages Division
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521005319
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Common European Framework of Reference for Languages written by Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation. Education Committee. Modern Languages Division and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains descriptor scales which describe the linguistic skills needed by language learners to become competent speakers of another language.
Author : Azadeh Shafaei
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599429330
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Global Practices of Language Teaching: Proceedings of the 2008 International Online Language Conference (IOLC 2008) written by Azadeh Shafaei and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first International Online Language Conference was successfully held in September 2008. This event invited professors, Masters and Ph.D. students, and academicians from around the world to submit papers in areas related to the conference theme. The event was organized by International Online Knowledge Service Provider (IOKSP). The main conference objectives were as follows: to provide a platform for language educators, academicians, and researchers from diverse cultural backgrounds to exchange ideas and the best practices for effective language teaching and learning; to promote better understanding of cultural diversity in language learning; to encourage language educators to be involved in the research process in order to achieve comprehensive excellence; and to produce a collection of scholarly papers.
Author : Inge Bartning
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446669939
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Communicative proficiency and linguistic development written by Inge Bartning and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has become the yardstick for teaching and testing language skills in Europe and elsewhere. Yet little is known about the relationships between the communicative levels established using the can-do statements of the CEFR and the developmental stages of grammatical and lexical development described by Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. This book presents empirical research by members of the SLATE network (Second Language Acquisition and Testing in Europe), aimed at bridging this gap. The studies deal with several target languages, including Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish, with adult, adolescent and child learners in both formal and informal contexts.
Author : Stuart D. Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521692939
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Examining Writing written by Stuart D. Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test developers need to provide a clear explication of the language ability constructs that underpin the tests they offer in the public domain; such an explication is essential for supporting claims about the validity - or usefulness - of test scores. This volume describes the theory and practice of Cambridge ESOL's approach to assessing second language writing ability. A comprehensive test validation framework is used to examine the tasks in Cambridge ESOL writing tests from a number of different validity perspectives that reflect the socio-cognitive nature of any assessment event. The authors show how an understanding and analysis of the framework and its components can assist test developers to operationalise their tests more effectively, especially in relation to the key criteria that differentiate one proficiency level from another. The book provides: an up-to-date review of relevant literature on assessing writing, an accessible and systematic description of the different proficiency levels in second language writing, a comprehensive and coherent basis for validating tests of writing. This volume is a rich source of information on all aspects of examining writing ability. As such, it will be of considerable interest to examination boards who wish to validate their own writing tests in a systematic and coherent manner, as well as to academic researchers and students in the field of language assessment more generally. Book jacket.
Author : Halina Chodkiewicz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855898
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Language Skills written by Halina Chodkiewicz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings an international perspective to language skills – an area of importance to both theorists and practitioners in all contexts of language teaching and learning. The twenty-seven chapters included here are arranged into six sections devoted to fundamental background issues, spoken interaction, perception of speech sounds and production skills, reading contexts and purposes, writing challenges for advanced learners, and technology and language skills. Explored themes range from the conceptualization of language as skill and the development of L2 skills in communicative and intercultural approaches, through challenges in teaching specific skills and their components, to the consideration of the possibilities and limitations of the use of modern technology in assisting students in skill acquisition. The volume’s contributors point to the multiaspectuality of the process of developing language skills with reference to different age groups, diverse educational and social contexts, as well as instructional activities focusing on isolated and integrated skills. The book also includes original empirical studies concerning learning, teaching, and testing numerous aspects of language skills in L2 attainment. The book will be of interest to researchers, classroom teachers, and specialists in language education, philology and applied linguistics, as well as to graduate students involved in the study of language skills acquisition and instruction.
