Testing the untestable in foreign language education / edited by Amos Paran and Lies Sercu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paran, Amos.

Sercu, Lies.

Series:

New perspectives on language and education ; 17.

New perspectives on language and education ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

Language and languages.

Intercultural communication--Evaluation.

Intercultural communication.

Multicultural education--Evaluation.

Multicultural education.

Communicative competence--Evaluation.

Communicative competence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The testing and assessment of language competence continues to be a much debated issue in foreign language teaching and research. This book is the first one to address the testing of four important dimensions of foreign language education which have been left largely unconsidered: learner autonomy, intercultural competence, literature and literary competence, and the integration of content and language learning. Each area is considered through a theoretical framework, followed by two empirical studies, raising questions of importance to all language teachers: How can one test literary competence? Can intercultural competence be measured? What about the integrated assessment of content-and-language in CLIL and teaching? Is progress in autonomous learning skill gaugeable? The book constitutes essential reading for anyone interested in the testing and assessment of seemingly largely untestable aspects of foreign language competence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

1. More than Language: The Additional Faces of Testing and Assessment in Language Learning and Teaching

Part 1: Intercultural Competence

2. Assessing Intercultural Competence: More Questions than Answers

3. Interculturally Savvy or Not? Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence in the Context of Learning for Business

4. Eliciting the Intercultural in Foreign Language Education at School

5. Measuring Autonomy: Should We Put Our Ability to the Test?

6. Assessment of Autonomy or Assessment for Autonomy? Evaluating Learner Autonomy for Formative Purposes

7. Learners Reflecting on Learning: Evaluation versus Testing in Autonomous Language Learning

8. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Dilemmas of Testing Language and Literature

9. Crossing the Bridge from Appreciative Reader to Reflective Writer: The Assessment of Creative Process

10. The Taming of the Immeasurable: An Empirical Assessment of Language Awareness

11. Assessing Language and Content: A Functional Perspective

12. Teachers and Texts: Judging What English Language Learners Know From What They Say

13. Towards Systematic and Sustained Formative Assessment of Causal Explanations in Oral Interactions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612657146

9781847693983

1847693989

9781282657144

1282657143

9781847692672

1847692672

OCLC:

645099480