Learning about language assessment : dilemmas, decisions, and directions
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
National Geographic Learning/Heinle, Cengage, Learning ,
c2015
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Assessment as infromation gathering: dilemmas of conflicting purposes
- 2. A framework for analyzing tests: entering a new culture
- 3. Another dilemma: contrasting pairs of concepts
- 4. The role of background knowledge: assessing the receptive skills
- 5. Making meaning: comunicative language testing
- 6. Making meaning: a cloze-knit family
- 7. Measuring meaning: communicative language testing
- 8. Eliciting oral language production: role plays
- 9. Measuring language production: scoring writing samples
- 10. Multiple-choice test and item analysis
- 11. Different paths to testing: alternative assessment
- 12. Specific purpose language testing: the importance of context
- 13. Content-based assessment: integrating language and content
- 14. Self-assessment in language learning