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- Author: Nic Underhill
- Publisher:
- ISBN: 9783125339880
- Category :
- Languages : en
- Pages : 132
Testing Second Language Speaking
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- Author: Glenn Fulcher
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 131787367X
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 357
The testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process. Glenn Fulcher's Testing Second Language Speaking is a state-of-the-art volume that considers the assessment of speaking from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The book offers the first systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the testing of second language speaking. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it covers: Explanations of the process of test design Costing test design projects How to put the test into practice Evaluation of speaking tests Task types for testing speaking Testing learners with disabilities It also contains a wealth of examples, including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests and specific methodologies that teachers, students and test developers may use in their own projects. Successfully integrating practice and theory, this book demystifies the process of testing speaking and provides a thorough treatment of the key ethical and technical issues in speaking evaluation.
Test of Language Development-2
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- Author: Donald D. Hammill
- Publisher:
- ISBN:
- Category : Children
- Languages : fr
- Pages : 54
Measures language skills in the areas of both listening and speaking, including visual and oral vocabulary, word articulation and discrimination, grammar, and comprehension. Primary for children ages 4 to 8, intermediate for ages 8 to 12.
Testing for Language Teachers
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- Author: Arthur Hughes
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 0521484952
- Category : Foreign Language Study
- Languages : en
- Pages : 263
This second edition remains the most practical guide to testing language. It has a new chapter on testing young learners.
Testing in Language Programs
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- Author: James Dean Brown
- Publisher:
- ISBN: 9780991585403
- Category :
- Languages : en
- Pages : 314
Testing in Language Programs is a textbook for graduate and undergraduate teacher training courses in language testing and assessment. Ideal for both classroom and personal reference, this book targets the needs of those making both program-level decisions (admissions, proficiency, and placement) as well as classroom-level decisions (e.g., assessing what students have learned through diagnostic and achievement testing.
Teaching the Spoken Language
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- Author: Gillian Brown
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 9780521273848
- Category : Education
- Languages : en
- Pages : 180
In this book the authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of it is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue
Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems
Spoken Language Reference Materials
Testing and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting Studies
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- Author: Claudia V. Angelelli
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
- ISBN: 9027289026
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 396
Testing and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting Studies examines issues of measurement that are essential to translation and interpreting. Conceptualizing testing both as a process and a product, the collection of papers explores these issues across languages and settings (including university classrooms, research projects, the private sector, and professional associations). The authors have approached their chapters from different perspectives using a variety of methods, some focusing on very specific variables, and others providing a much broader overview of the issues at hand. Chapters range from a discussion of the measurement of text cohesion in translation; the measurement of interactional competence in interpreting; the use of a particular scale to measure interpreters’ renditions to the application of a specific approach to grading or general program assessment (such as interpreter or translator certification at the national level or program admissions processes). These studies point to the need for greater integration of research and practice in the specific area of testing and assessment and are a welcome addition to the field.
Talking and Testing
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- Author: Richard Young
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
- ISBN: 9027285543
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 407
This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency assessment: the ways in which the language proficiency interview is accomplished through discourse.Contributors draw on a variety of discourse perspectives, including the ethnography of speaking, conversation analysis, language socialization theory, sociolinguistic variation theory, human interaction research, and systemic functional linguistics. And for the first time, LPIs conducted in German, Korean, and Spanish are examined as well as interviews in English. This book sheds light on such important issues as how speaking ability can be defined independently of an LPI that is designed to assess it and the extent to which an LPI is an authentic representation of ordinary conversation in the target language. It will be of considerable interest to language testers, discourse analysts, second language acquisition researchers, foreign language specialists, and anyone concerned with proficiency issues in language teaching and testing.
