Handbook of Second Language Assessment / / ed. by Dina Tsagari, Jayanti Banerjee.

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, pol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL] : Communication Competence. Language and Communication Problems. Practical Solutions ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIII, 437 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the handbook series
  • Contents
  • 1. The handbook of second language assessment
  • I. Conceptual foundations of second language assessment
  • 2. Purposes of assessment
  • 3. Standards and frameworks
  • 4. Norm-referenced vs. criterion-referenced approach to assessment
  • 5. Quality factors in language assessment
  • 6. The impact of language assessment
  • II. Assessing second language skills/areas
  • 7. Assessing listening
  • 8. Assessing reading
  • 9. Assessing speaking
  • 10. Assessing writing
  • 11. Assessing pragmatic competence
  • 12. Assessing intercultural competence
  • 13. Fluency in second language assessment
  • 14. Translation and interpretation skills
  • III. Second language asessment contexts
  • 15. Assessment in educational settings
  • 16. Learning-oriented assessment in second and foreign language classrooms
  • 17. Dynamic Assessment in the language classroom
  • 18. Language assessment for the workplace
  • 19. Language assessment and analysis for immigration, citizenship and asylum
  • IV. Issues in second language assessment
  • 20. Aligning language assessments to standards and frameworks
  • 21. Technology and artificial intelligence in language assessment
  • 22. Assessing young learners
  • 23. Assessing students with learning and other disabilities/special needs
  • 24. ‘Authorial voice’ in the assessment of writing
  • 25. Teacher assessment literacy and professional development
  • Biographical notes
  • Index