Local Language Testing Practice across Contexts
This book describes language testing practices that exist in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in language testing literature. Drawing empirical research on a variety of languages, the volume discusses local lan...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Educational Linguistics
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Development and Implementation
- Developing a local placement test for Italian: Successes and limitations from a test developer’s perspective; Carmen De Lorenzo and Koen Van Gorp
- Innovative assessment of Tourism English via a spoken dialog system: A local digitally delivered Tourism English assessment; Yasin Karatay
- Creating a role-play test-task and an indigenous rubric for dispensing drugs in English for Thai pharmacy students; Sasithorn Limgomolvilas and Jirada Wudthayagorn
- Identifying the phonological errors of second-modality, second-language (M2-L2) novice signers through video-based mock tests; Luigi Lerose
- Dynamic Assessment and Placement Exams in Second Language Programs: The Development and Implementation of a Language Diagnostic in a Study Abroad Context; Susana Madinabeitia Manso and Eduardo Negueruela Azarola
- Impact of a Brazilian three-phased university admission program on the teaching practices of public- school Spanish teachers; Rafael S. R. de Melo and Gladys Quevedo-Camargo
- Using Multi-Faceted Rasch Analysis to Examine Raters, Prompts, and Rubrics in an Office-Hour Role-Play Task; Haoshan Ren, Stephen Looney and Sara Cushing
- Part II: Validation and Use
- The validity of the MLAT-ES and MLAT-EC aptitude tests for young bilingual learners of a foreign language; Maria del Mar Suarez and Charles Stansfield
- Validation of the Czech Language Certificate Exam with Respect to the Local Context; Martina Hulešová and Kateřina Vodičková
- Speaking ‘CEFR’ about local tests: What mapping a placement test to the CEFR can and can’t do; Suzanne Springer and Martyna Kozlowska
- Building an assessment use argument for the national evaluation of learning outcomes among Finnish 6th graders’ learning English; Marita Härmälä and Raili Hildén
- Expectations, patterns, and strengths and limitations of correlations among language proficiency test scores; April Ginther, Lixia Cheng, Xiarorui Li and Sharareh Taghizadeh Vahed