The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region

The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region

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  • Author: Lee McCallum
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030532542
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 432

This edited book brings together contributions from different educational contexts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in order to explore how L2 English writing is assessed. Across seven MENA countries, the book covers aspects of practice including: task design and curriculum alignment, test (re)development, rubric design, the subjective decision making that underpins assessing students’ writing and feedback provision, learner performance and how research methods help shed light on initiatives to improve student writing. In such coverage, chapter authors provide concrete evidence of how assessment practice is governed by their unique context, yet also influenced by international standards, trends and resources. This book will be of interest to second language teachers, assessors and programme developers as well as test designers and evaluators.


Reading and Writing Skills: Cognitive, Emotional, Creative, and Digital Approaches

Reading and Writing Skills: Cognitive, Emotional, Creative, and Digital Approaches

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  • Author: María Isabel de Vicente-Yagüe Jara
  • Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
  • ISBN: 2832540953
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 487


English Language Teaching

English Language Teaching

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  • Author: Lee McCallum
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811921520
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 357

This book provides an overview of current trends and practices in English Language Teaching (ELT) across the European Union. It offers insights into key ELT issues which are at the forefront of twenty-first-century classrooms. It discusses theoretical and empirical work based on topics such as linguistic imperialism, English as a Medium of Instruction, contrastive language analysis, and the interplay between English and the use of countries’ respective native languages. It also explores the challenges of English Language Teaching under different circumstances such as, while using different technological platforms, working with different learner groups (those with Special Educational Needs) and revising traditional practices in grammar and vocabulary teaching. Throughout the book, the link between policy, theory and practice is explicitly highlighted and exemplified. The book is of interest to ELT instructors, course designers, language teachers and teacher trainers, and students enrolled in pre-service English training courses.


Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy

Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy

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  • Author: Sahbi Hidri
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000075796
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy describes how the elements of language assessment literacy can help teachers gather information about when and how to assess learners, and about using the appropriate assessment tools to interpret results in a fair way. It provides highlights from past and current research, descriptions of assessment processes that enhance LAL, case studies from classrooms, and suggestions for professional dialogue and collaboration. This book will help to foster continuous learning, empower learners and teachers and make them more confident in their assessment tasks, and reassure decision makers that what is going on in assessment meets international benchmarks and standards. It addresses issues like concepts and challenges of assessment, the impacts of reflective feedback on assessment, the ontogenetic nature of assessment literacy, the reliability of classroom-based assessment, and interfaces between teaching and assessment. It fills this gap in the literature by addressing the current status and future challenges of language assessment literacy. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language assessment literacy and English language teaching.


Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing

Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing

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  • Author: Philip Durrant
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108477623
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 255

Gives a theoretical and empirical grounding for quantitative corpus linguistic research in first and second language writing development.


CALL Theory Applications for Online TESOL Education

CALL Theory Applications for Online TESOL Education

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  • Author: Kelch, Kenneth B.
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1799866114
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 440

With the increased necessity of using online teaching to ensure students continue to learn, it is imperative that language teachers implement computer-assisted language learning (CALL) techniques into their teaching strategies. TESOL teachers especially must continue to remain up to date on the latest research outlining best practices for the online teaching of English language learners. CALL Theory Applications for Online TESOL Education is a crucial reference work that focuses on online education and CALL in the context of teaching English to speakers of other languages. The book presents research that illustrates the current best practices in online CALL applications in TESOL including works on emerging applications such as mobile language learning, games, and service-learning. It includes chapters that focus on technology-enhanced learning in a variety of configurations, from fully online contexts to face-to-face blended learning contexts that have some degree of a virtual component. While highlighting topics that include e-learning, second language acquisition, and virtual learning environments, this book is ideal for TESOL educators and CALL practitioners who are interested in the ways in which language and culture are impacted by online education. Moreover, K-12 teachers and teacher educators working with linguistically and culturally diverse learners in their classes and communities, as well as administrators, academicians, researchers, and students will benefit from the research contained in this book.


Assessing Change in English Second Language Writing Performance

Assessing Change in English Second Language Writing Performance

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  • Author: Khaled Barkaoui
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 100020149X
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 182

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second language (L2) learners’ written texts. The authors conducted a major study on changes and differences in English L2 learners’ writing performance to advance understanding of the nature of L2 writing development over time, in relation to L2 instruction and testing, and to offer a model that professionals and researchers can use in their own longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of L2 writing development. Grounded in research, data, theory, and technology, this will be a welcome how-to for language test developers, scholars, and graduate students of (L2) writing and assessment.


Classroom Writing Assessment and Feedback in L2 School Contexts

Classroom Writing Assessment and Feedback in L2 School Contexts

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  • Author: Icy Lee
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811039240
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 157

While assessment and feedback tend to be treated separately in the L2 writing literature, this book brings together these two essential topics and examines how effective classroom assessment and feedback can provide a solid foundation for the successful teaching and learning of writing. Drawing upon current educational and L2 writing theories and research, the book is the first to address writing assessment and feedback in L2 primary and secondary classrooms, providing a comprehensive, up-to-date review of key issues, such as assessment for learning, assessment as learning, teacher feedback, peer feedback, portfolio assessment, and technology enhanced classroom writing assessment and feedback. The book concludes with a chapter on classroom assessment literacy for L2 writing teachers, outlines its critical components and underscores the importance of teachers undertaking continuing professional development to enhance their classroom assessment literacy. Written in an accessible style, the book provides a practical and valuable resource for L2 writing teachers to promote student writing, and for teacher educators to deliver effective classroom writing assessment and feedback training. Though the target audience is school teachers, L2 writing instructors in any context will benefit from the thorough and useful treatment of classroom assessment and feedback in the book.


Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing

Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing

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  • Author: Philip Durrant
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108808018
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 255

Quantitative corpus research on written language development has expanded rapidly in recent years, assisted by the ever-increasing power and accessibility of software capable of reliably analysing huge collections of learner writing. For this work to reach its full potential, it is important that researchers have a strong understanding of its methodological foundations and of the existing empirical evidence base on which it can build. This book provides the most comprehensive discussion to date of research in this area. Covering both first and second language learning contexts, it sets out a coherent theoretical framework and systematically reviews studies published over the last seventy years in order to establish what such research has taught us about written language development, what it hasn't taught us, and what we should do next. Timely and original, this is an essential reference work for academic researchers and students of first and second language writing.


L2 Writing Assessment

L2 Writing Assessment

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  • Author: Elena Kkese
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527542688
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 171

When severe reading and spelling problems are not detected at an early stage in the school context, students may not be able to overcome them even in adulthood. Such problems in the worst cases may lead to developmental dyslexia or developmental dysorthographia, which are severe learning disabilities. Early intervention, though, can prevent these problems. Consequently, involving students in an active writing programme and providing them with ample opportunities to use spelling words in frequent writing can be the answer to such an inquiry. Meaningful writing can further facilitate spelling acquisition since in this manner, they can gain control over their work and learn to focus on the writing process and not exclusively on the final product. The book addresses these issues in order to help educators and clinicians identify such problems early, while it also acts as a practical guide to instruction and assessment.