Language Testing and Assessment
BOOK REVIEW: Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language Testing and Assessment (3rd ed.)
... of testing and assessment from social, political, professional, ethical, and educational dimensions, the Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language Testing and Assessment ...
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Foreword to the Special Issue “The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for English Language Assessment in China” of Language Testing in Asia
... When considering how levels can be measured, it is worth noting that it was, in part, one of the effects of the CEFR that much research has looked at how to set standards (for which one might include levels) and how to ...
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Appraising Pre-service EFL Teachers' Assessment in Language Testing Course Using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
... the language testing ...on language assessment courses were ...designing assessment tools for assessing various skills) as well as conceptual ...current assessment documents and ...
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Use Of Formative Assessment, Self- And Peer-Assessment In The Classrooms: Some Insights From Recent Language Testing And Assessment (LTA) Research
... of assessment for learning because it puts the pupils in a position to manage their learning by ensuring that they know were they are without the need for the teacher to tell them what they need to ...peer ...
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Toward measuring language teachers’ assessment knowledge: development and validation of Language Assessment Knowledge Scale (LAKS)
... for assessment-related ...in language assessment to the pre-service ...to language testing and ...and assessment, broadening of the teachers’ understanding of the construct of ...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing
... Classroom assessment, where after providing definitions and some characteristics of Classroom Based Assessment (CBA), Turner focuses on the work done by the Assessment Reform Group in the UK and its ...
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A SURVEY OF THE PRACTICES OF CAMBRIDGE LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
... native-speaker language syllabus including an English literature paper, an essay, and also a compulsory phonetics paper with a grammar section, and translation from and into French and ...to language ...
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Authenticity in language testing: some outstanding questions
... communicative language testing, pointed to ‘the overriding impor- tance of authenticity’, while for Wood (1993) it is one of the most important issues in language ...of language tests’ (p. ...
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Postgraduate students’ conception of language assessment
... International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test which has to be taken by individuals interested in emigrating to English-speaking countries. In addition to their purpose to help institutions to ...
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Students' Perceptions of Traditional English Language Testing in Thailand
... involves assessment (especially in the form of exams and ...a testing society (Broadfoot, 2005). Testing in education is an attempt to measure a person's knowledge, intelligence, or other ...
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Assessment for Learning in Language Education
... for assessment (retrospective, auditing learning and directed towards revealing the learner’s state of knowledge) and formative purposes (prospective, guiding learning and directed towards changing the learner’s ...
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Language assessment literacy: an uncharted area for the English language teachers in Bangladesh
... In further discussions on this matter, this participant revealed that, since she did not know how to design a question in the early days of her teaching career, she used to copy the patterns of the questions from the ...
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Language testing in the ‘hostile environment’:The discursive construction of ‘secure English language testing’ in the United Kingdom
... 11 assessment into a single set of documents. However, when we began our study, the tender process had finished and the documents were no longer available online. Attempts to acquire them directly from the Home ...
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An Intelligent Testing Strategy for Vocabulary Assessment of Chinese Second Language Learners
... of language testing tech- nologies, computerized adaptive testing (CAT) has attracted considerable attention in language testing area and has been successfully applied to large- scale ...
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Language Assessment Literacy and the Professional Development of Pre Service Language Teachers
... language assessment (the power language assessment can have on people; ...what language assessment ...professional language testers and classroom ...that language ...
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Video Self-Assessment for Language Learners
... self- assessment, with research suggesting self-assessment is more strongly tied to affective factors than to cognitive ones (Sitzmann, Ely, Brown, & Bauer, ...For language learners, however, it ...
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Doubts on the validity of correlation as a validation tool in second language testing research: the case of cloze testing
... As for the meaning of cloze, it comes from the gestalt concept of ‘closure’ and was first introduced six decades ago by (Taylor 1953). Based on the concept of ‘closure’ , it will be possible for a person to perceive an ...
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The Washback Effects of Testing Practices on English Language Teaching
... outcome. Testing can often be viewed as an external trigger for student motivation to ...Every testing may bring both positive and negative washback ...of testing on English language ...
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MUTT: Metric Unit TesTing for Language Generation Tasks
... The rest of the paper is as follows: Section 2 introduces the corruption-based metric unit testing process, Section 3 lists the existing metrics we use in our experiments as well as the [r] ...
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Context Dependent Regression Testing for Natural Language Processing
... soning using natural language, since explanations and contentful talk are associated with learning gain (Purandare and Litman, 2008). This requires de- tailed analyses of student answers in terms of cor- rect, ...
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