Overview
- An in-depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning
- A unique study that crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research and presents an alternative approach that seeks the views of stakeholders
- Stakeholder perspectives provide unique insight into how mandated assessment reforms are received, interpreted and put into practice by those working in the real world of local classrooms?
Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 26)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Assessing speaking
- Assessing spoken proficiency
- Assessment for learning
- Assessment innovation
- Assessment reform
- Communicative Language Teaching
- Curriculum reform
- Educational reform
- Formative and summative assessment
- High-stakes assessment
- High-stakes tests
- Language assessment
- Language testing
- Spoken proficiency
- Standards-based assessment
- Static and dynamic assessment
- Task-based language assessment
- Task-based language teaching
- Test usefulness
- Washback
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Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency makes an outstanding and original contribution to the field of second and foreign language teaching, providing a theory and research-based account of the development of a learner-centred approach to oral proficiency assessment. It is an important resource for teachers and teacher educators as well as assessment and curriculum specialists worldwide. It deserves to be widely read.
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Book Title: Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency
Book Subtitle: Stakeholder Perspectives on Assessment Innovation
Authors: Martin East
Series Title: Educational Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0303-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0301-1Published: 10 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9128-5Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0303-5Published: 02 February 2016
Series ISSN: 1572-0292
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 227
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Learning & Instruction, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation