Fundamental Considerations in Technology Mediated Language Assessment

Fundamental Considerations in Technology Mediated Language Assessment

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  • Author: Karim Sadeghi
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000862771
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 221

Fundamental Considerations in Technology Mediated Language Assessment aims to address issues such as how the forced integration of technology into second language assessment has shaped our understanding of key traditional concepts like validity, reliability, washback, authenticity, ethics, fairness, test security, and more. Although computer-assisted language testing has been around for more than two decades in the context of high-stakes proficiency testing, much of language testing worldwide has shifted to “at-home” mode, and relies heavily on the mediation of digital technology, making its widespread application in classroom settings in response to the COVID-19 outbreak unprecedented. Integration of technology into language assessment has brought with it countless affordances and at the same time challenges, both theoretically and practically. One major theoretical consideration requiring attention is the way technology has contributed to a reconceptualization of major assessment concepts/constructs. There is very limited literature available on the theoretical underpinnings of technology mediated language assessment. This book aims to fill this gap. This book will appeal to academic specialists, practitioners, or professionals in the field of language assessment, advanced and/or graduate students, and a range of scholars or professionals in disciplines like educational technology, applied linguistics, and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).


Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education

Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education

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  • Author: John McE. Davis
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • ISBN: 1626165416
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research that explores innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts. Divided into three parts, this volume first examines theoretical considerations and practical implementations of assessment conducted for the purpose of enhancing and developing language learning. Part 2 addresses novel assessment development and implementation projects, such as the formative use of task-based assessments, technology-mediated language performance assessment, validation of educational placement tests for immigrant learners, and the use of assessment to help identify neurolinguistic correlates of proficiency. The final section of the book highlights examples of argument-based approaches to assessment and evaluation validation, extending this critical framework to quality assurance efforts in new domains. Adding to research on traditional and conventional uses of testing and evaluation in language education, this volume captures innovative trends in assessment and evaluation practice that explicitly aim to better inform and enhance language teaching and learning.


Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1989: Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1989: Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology

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  • Author: James E. Alatis
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • ISBN: 0878401245
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 420


Assessing Language Through Computer Technology

Assessing Language Through Computer Technology

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  • Author: Carol A. Chapelle
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 052184021X
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 139

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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1989: Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1989: Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology

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  • Author: James E. Alatis
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • ISBN: 9781589018495
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 428

The 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics brought together distinguished linguists from around the globe to discuss applications of linguistics to important and intriguing real-world issues within the professions. With topics as wide-ranging as coherence in operating room communication, involvement strategies in news analysis roundtable discussions, and jury understanding of witness deception, this resulting volume of selected papers provides both experts and novices with myriad insights into the excitement of cross-disciplinary language analysis. Readers will find--in the words of one contributor--that in such cross-pollination of ideas, "there's tremendous hope, there's tremendous power and the power to transform."


Practical Language Testing

Practical Language Testing

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  • Author: Glenn Fulcher
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1444174096
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 418

Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests. This intensely practical book gives guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests. The book explains the normative role of large scale testing and provides alternatives that the reader can adapt to their own context. This fulfils the dual purpose of providing the reader with the knowledge they need to prepare learners for tests, and the practical skills for using assessment for learning. Practical Language Testing is the ideal introduction for students of applied linguistics, TESOL and modern foreign language teaching as well as practicing teachers required to design or implement language testing programmes. The book is supported by frequently updated online resources at http://languagetesting.info/ including sets of scenarios providing resources to study aviation English assessment, call centre assessment, military language assessment, and medical language assessment. The materials can be used to structure debates and seminars, with pre-reading and video activities. Practical Language Testing was commended as a 2012 runner-up of the prestigious SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing.


Teaching, Testing, and Assessment

Teaching, Testing, and Assessment

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  • Author: Charles R. Hancock
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Focuses on the relationship among teaching, testing and assessment. Explores ways in which foreign language professionals can answer a key question: "Do my teaching, testing and assessment match?"


New Directions in Language Testing

New Directions in Language Testing

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  • Author: Y. P. Lee
  • Publisher: Pergamon
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Langage et langues
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190


English Language Learning and Technology

English Language Learning and Technology

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  • Author: Carol A. Chapelle
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027295956
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229

This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning, the book identifies significant areas of interplay between technology and applied linguistics, and it explores current perspectives on perennial questions such as how theory and research on second language acquisition can help to inform technology-based language learning practices, how the multifaceted learning accomplished through technology can be evaluated, and how theoretical perspectives can offer insight on data obtained from research on interaction with and through technology. The book illustrates how the interplay between technology and applied linguistics can amplify and expand applied linguists’ understanding of fundamental issues in the field. Through discussion of computer-assisted approaches for investigating second language learning tasks and assessment, it illustrates how technology can be used as a tool for applied linguistics research.


Fostering Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Environments With Contemporary Technologies

Fostering Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Environments With Contemporary Technologies

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  • Author: Çetin Köro?lu, Zeynep
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 359

With so many new technologies becoming available to language educators today, it can seem overwhelming and many who are eager to implement these advancements into their classrooms may not know where to start. Fostering Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Environments With Contemporary Technologies emerges as an essential guide book for educators, scholars, and policymakers navigating the intricacies of modern language pedagogy. Within these pages, the journey begins by acknowledging the digital revolution that has given rise to a generation of 'digital natives'. Drawing from John Dewey's timeless wisdom, the book echoes the urgency to equip today's learners with the tools of tomorrow. By exploring the metaverse, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence, it unravels a tapestry of innovative possibilities. Through vivid exemplars, this volume elucidates how these cutting-edge technologies can seamlessly integrate into the traditional classroom or the virtual learning space. Designed for students, professionals, educators, and scholars entrenched in foreign language education, it stands as a definitive resource. Unveiling a spectrum of topics, including artificial intelligence-augmented learning for acquiring speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills. It also delves into the role of augmented reality in redefining language classrooms and vocabulary acquisition, and the metaverse is unveiled as a realm of untapped potential, and learner autonomy within tech-infused classrooms becomes a focal point. It extends its embrace to encompass program designers, administrators, and practitioners, unraveling the tapestry of language instruction, learning, and assessment.