Assessing Young Learners

Assessing Young Learners

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  • Author: Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780194372817
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 200

Helps teachers to assess children's progress in English, in a way that is appropriate for young learners.


Assessing the Language of Young Learners

Assessing the Language of Young Learners

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  • Author: Angela Hasselgreen
  • Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
  • ISBN: 9781781794708
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This volume offers new insights into the assessment of the language of Young Learners (YLs). YLs are defined here as being from 5 to 17 years, and are treated as three distinct subgroups: younger children (5/6 to 8/9 years), older children (8/9 to 12/13 years) and teenagers (12/13 to 17 years). The first half addresses fundamental issues, beginning with the characteristics of YLs and how these are manifested in first language development. The authors consider the potential ability of each age group to perform in a second or foreign language, proposing a rough age-related correspondence with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels. Finally, principles of assessment, specifically formative assessment and testing, are presented in the light of linguistic, cognitive and social development. The second half focuses on testing a range of 'skills'. Theoretical models of performance are introduced, followed by a practical analysis of approaches to the testing of each skill for the three age groups, illustrated with examples. The authors conclude by summing up developmental characteristics of each age group, and their implications for language testing. The book is intended for a wide readership within the field of teaching and assessing the language of young learners. Researchers are offered scope for further investigation of what emerges from the discussion, while practitioners will hopefully find support in their day-to-day work with YLs.


Assessing Young Language Learners

Assessing Young Language Learners

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  • Author: Penny McKay
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521841380
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 13

This book offers a comprehensive framework for the assessment of young language learners.


Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

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  • Author: Marianne Nikolov
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319224220
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

This volume documents international, national, and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners, across a range of educational contexts. It covers three main areas: age-appropriate ‘can do statements’ and task types for teaching and testing learners between the ages of 6 to 13; innovative approaches to self-assessment, diagnostic testing, self- perception, and computer-based testing; and findings on how young learners perform on vocabulary, listening, speaking, pronunciation, and reading comprehension tests in European and Asian contexts. Early language learning has become a major trend in English language education around the globe. As a result of the spread of teaching English to a growing number of young children, assessment of and for learning have emerged as key issues. In line with this development, there is a clear and emerging need to make early language programs accountable and to assess both the progress children make over time and to quantify their achievement at various stages of development. This volume informs stakeholders about the realistic goals of early language learning, their efficiency, and how much progress children make over time.


Examining Young Learners: Research and Practice in Assessing the English of School-age Learners

Examining Young Learners: Research and Practice in Assessing the English of School-age Learners

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  • Author: Szilvia Papp
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316638200
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 859

An account of how children learn L2s in formal contexts and how that knowledge impacts on the design, development, and evaluation of their language assessment products.


English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners

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  • Author: Mikyung Kim Wolf
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1317379047
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

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.


Integrating Assessment into Early Language Learning and Teaching

Integrating Assessment into Early Language Learning and Teaching

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  • Author: Danijela Prošić-Santovac
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788924835
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

The volume unites research and practice on integrating language learning, teaching and assessment at preschool and early school age. It includes chapters written by experts in the field who have studied some of the very youngest (pre-primary) children through to those up to the age of 12, in a variety of private and state contexts across Europe. The collection makes a much-needed contribution to the subject of appropriate assessment for children with the focus of many chapters being classroom-based assessment, particularly formative assessment, or the case for developing assessment skills in relation to even the youngest children. As a whole, the book provides useful case study insights for policymakers, teacher educators, researchers and postgraduate students with interest in or responsibility for how children are assessed in their language learning. It also provides practical ideas for practitioners who wish to implement greater integration of assessment and learning in their own contexts.


Assessing the Young Learners' Progress: Tests

Assessing the Young Learners' Progress: Tests

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  • Author: Nicole Hahn
  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag
  • ISBN: 3638668002
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 73

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Wuppertal, course: Teaching English to very young children, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1999, Rea-Dickens and Rixon conducted a survey about the relationship between assessment and learning. 120 European teachers and teacher trainers were asked if the main purpose of their assessment was to help their teaching, and 97% answered in the affirmative. Rea-Dickens and Rixon examined afterwards what the teachers really assessed and how they did so. They found a strong "mismatch between curricular aims, pedagogy and test content" (Cameron, Lynne.Teaching languages to very young learners. Cambridge University press.2001. page 217). The assessment focused mainly on the children's achievements but neglected on other curricular aims such as language and social awareness. The assessment of young learners should serve teaching by providing feedback on the children's learning progress, so that the content and the difficulty of subsequent teaching units can be effectively adjusted to the learners' needs. This paper offers the reader an overview about the theoretical ideas and principles which should be kept in mind when implementing an assessment. Furthermore the guidelines of lower Saxony are introduced. They illustrate the expectations of the German school system towards assessment in class. Afterwards the paper gives an overview about psycholinguistic tests such as "Blitztest" and "F-Test". Additionally, the paper answers the question of origin and purpose of the Cambridge Young Learners Test. Finally, material which should support the teacher in the efficiency assessment of the pupils is represented, considering the example of "Ginger".


Teaching Languages to Young Learners

Teaching Languages to Young Learners

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  • Author: Lynne Cameron
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521773253
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 16

This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.


Assessment of Young Learner Literacy Linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Assessment of Young Learner Literacy Linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

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  • Author: Angela Hasselgreen
  • Publisher: Council of Europe
  • ISBN: 9789287171559
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 64

Primary school teachers are increasingly faced with the task of assessing the literacy of pupils in a language other than a pupil's mother tongue. The handbook presents practical issues and principles associated with this assessment. The section on writing also contains a step-by-step guide for training teachers in the use of the material. Teachers will find tips on how to get pupils to write, how to assess their writing and how to give feedback. This is illustrated by pupils' texts and teachers' comments. In addition, the project website contains downloadable material for assessing writing. Samples of pupils' writing across a range of levels are provided exemplifying how to use the proposed material, with comments demonstrating how the assessment can be used as a basis for feedback to the pupils.