Author: Topou PuluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athapascan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Guidelines for the Selection, Adaptation and Development of Language Proficiency Tests
Author: Topou PuluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athapascan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Principled Approach to Language Assessment
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309675510
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
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.
Tests and Testing for Bilingual Children
Author: Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency
Author: J. Charles AldersonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441147594
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book addresses the need for tests that can diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in learners' developing foreign language proficiency. It presents the rationale for, and research surrounding, the development of DIALANG, a suite of internet-delivered diagnostic foreign language tests funded by the European Commission. The word 'diagnosis' is common in discussions in language education and applied linguistics, but very few truly diagnostic tests exist. However, the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency is central to helping learners make progress. This volume explores the nature of diagnostic testing, emphasizing the need for a better understanding of the nature of appropriate diagnosis. The book starts with a debate about how diagnostic testing might most appropriately be developed. Charles Alderson argues that the field has neglected to construct diagnostic tests, partly because other forms of testing have dominated the field. Alderson examines how proficiency has been diagnosed in the key areas of language: reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary. The value of self-assessment is discussed and exemplified as a key component in developing learners', and teachers', awareness of the complexity of language learning. The book ends with a consideration of and recommendations for future developments in the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency.
Lau and Its Effects on Bilingual Education
Author: Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
Author: Ronald K. HambletonPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135676577
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book will critically examine the "do's" & "don'ts" in adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research.
Challenges in Language Testing Around the World
Author: Betty LanteignePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9813342323
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world. It investigates problematic practices in language testing which are relevant to language test users such as language program directors, testing centers, and language teachers, as well as teachers-in-training in Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programs. These issues involve aspects of language testing such as test development, test administration, scoring, and interpretation/use of test results. Chapters in this volume discuss insights about language testing policy, testing world languages, developing program-level language tests and tests of specific language skills, and language assessment literacy. In addition, this book identifies two needs in language testing for further examination: the need for collaboration between language test developers, language test users, and language users, and the need to base language tests on real-world language use.
Language Assessment
Author: H. Douglas BrownPublisher: Pearson Education ESL
ISBN: 9780134860220
Category : Language acquisition
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices is designed to offer a comprehensive survey of essential principles and tools for second language assessment. Its first and second editions have been successfully used in teacher-training courses, teacher certification curricula, and TESOL master of arts programs. As the third in a trilogy of teacher education textbooks, it is designed to follow H. Douglas Brown's other two books, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (sixth edition, Pearson Education, 2014) and Teaching by Principles(fourth edition, Pearson Education, 2015). References to those two books are made throughout the current book. Language Assessment features uncomplicated prose and a systematic, spiraling organization. Concepts are introduced with practical examples, understandable explanations, and succinct references to supportive research. The research literature on language assessment can be quite complex and assume that readers have technical knowledge and experience in testing. By the end of Language Assessment, however, readers will have gained access to this not-so-frightening field. They will have a working knowledge of a number of useful, fundamental principles of assessment and will have applied those principles to practical classroom contexts. They will also have acquired a storehouse of useful tools for evaluating and designing practical, effective assessment techniques for their classrooms.
Defining and Developing Proficiency
Author: Heidi ByrnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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