Exploring language assessment and testing : language in action / Anthony Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Anthony, 1966- author.

Series:

Routledge introductions to applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Ability testing.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

The Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics series takes an innovative 'practice to theory' approach, with a 'back-to-front' structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and issues, through a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns, before finally relating these practical issues to theoretical foundations. Exploring Language Assessment and Testing offers a straightforward and accessible introduction that starts from real-world experiences and uses practical examples to introduce the reader to the academic field of language assessment and testing. Extensively updated, with additional features such as reader tasks (with extensive commentaries from the author), a glossary of key terms and an annotated further reading section, this second edition provides coverage of recent theoretical and technological developments and explores specific purposes for assessment. Including concrete models and examples to guide readers into the relevant literature, this book also offers practical guidance for educators and researchers on designing, developing and using assessments. Providing an inclusive and impartial survey of both classroom-based assessment by teachers and larger-scale testing, this is an indispensable introduction for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students studying Language Education, Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Permissions

Acknowledgements

Series editors' introduction

Part I

1 Putting language assessment in its place

Language as evidence about people

Assessment and testing

2 Purposes for assessment

Purposes for assessment

Educational assessment in teaching and learning

Different worlds or shared spaces?

3 The practice of language assessment

Building quality systems for language assessment

Effective assessment comes at a PRICE

The assessment cycle

4 The qualities of effective assessment systems

Four qualities of useful assessments

Practicality

Reliability

Validity

Interpretative arguments: assessing the evidence

Assessments as maps

Beneficial consequences

Summary: the right tool for the job

Part II

5 Assessing receptive skills

Defining reading and listening abilities

Assessing grammar and vocabulary

Preparing items for assessing reading and listening

Trying out material

Scoring performance

Standard setting

6 Assessing productive and interactive skills

Defining productive and interactive language abilities

Assessment design

Speaking tasks

Task review

Using computers to score performance

Score reporting and feedback

Part III

7 Multiplication and division: trends in language assessment

Introduction

The growth of a profession

What to assess? Constructs

Conflicting and shifting views of language education

Objections to discrete point testing

Integrative testing

The mastery learning movement

Language aptitude

Behavioural objectives

Two approaches to score interpretation.

Pragmatic tests and the unitary competence hypothesis

The 'promised land' of communicative testing

Rapprochement: communicative language ability

Developments in formative assessment

Assessment wars: teacher assessment versus external tests

Ethical and critical language assessment

Higher, wider, deeper: some emerging trends in language assessment

Last words

8 Commentary on tasks

Glossary

Further reading

References

Index.

Notes:

"First edition published by Routledge 2014".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003105794

1003105793

9781000332193

1000332195

9781000332056

1000332055

OCLC:

1228879762