(Išleidimo metai: 24-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631882504)
With the growing recognition of the need to broaden the definition of Interactional Competence (IC) for communication and learning, this monograph offers the first book-length treatment on the conceptualization, development and validation of IC asses...Daugiau...
Claudia Harsch, Nikola Dobri, Hermann Cesnik, Claudia Harsch
Serija: Language Testing and Evaluation
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Aug-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631871430)
The contributors to this volume take up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized tests, the acknowledgement of language varieties in high-stakes exams, fostering language assessment literacy or psychometric models to enhance C-test i...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Dec-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631865408)
This book explores the construct of language in use, specifically as operationalised through different item types in the Austrian Matura (school-leaving exam). Empirical research on some of these item types is scarce. The auth...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Mar-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631842225)
The book introduces a framework for examining the validity of tests that aim to assess second-language (L2) proficiency development over time and/or in relation to L2 instruction. It also reports the findings of a longitudinal study that aimed to exa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Mar-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631780091)
This Festschrift for Tim McNamara brings together papers on the social impact of language tests, such as fairness and justice of test use, testing of interaction, and teachers and students views of language tests. It also discusses the future of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Nov-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631666913)
This book presents a unique inter-university scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two new rating scales for the assessment of academic presentations and interactions. The use of rating scales for performance assessment has inc...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Nov-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631667217)
The book introduces the reader to an argument-based approach to validity as a way to improve test validation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. Motivated by the need for practical suggestions for raising proficiency assessment standards i...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Dec-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631656556)
Liontou presents students, academics, researchers, and practitioners with an investigation of a range of linguistic features that characterize texts used at the independent user and proficient user levels of the Greek State Certificate of English Lan...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jul-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631653791)
Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-May-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631654309)
Dieser Band illustriert den aktuellen Stand der C-Test-Forschung. C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstruieren sind. This collection of papers illustrates the state of the art of C-Test research. C-T...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Apr-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631650080)
Throughout Europe, but especially in Germany, foreign language teachers, especially teachers of English as a foreign language, are being required to promote the acquisition of intercultural communicative competence. Timpe explains how intercultural l...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Mar-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631648919)
The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) has the largest test population of all language tests for Chinese as a foreign language tests, says Meyer, and is the most studied. He analyzes the test in its old form--before 2010--in terms of language proficiency, v...Daugiau...
Günther Sigott, Dina Tsagari, Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous, Sophie Ioannu-Georgiou
Serija: Language Testing and Evaluation
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Apr-2013, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631621929)
The 16 papers are from a June 2011 international language testing and assessment conference held at the University of Cyprus in memory of stalwart Pavlou, who had died of cancer the year before. They cover problematizing language testing and assessme...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Aug-2012, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631638118)
Black and Williams (1998) influential article Inside the Black Box prompted an increasing interest in assessment processes within the classroom. However, to date most of this research has been done in general and science education. This book repo...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Oct-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631613344)
Defining the construct of interaction for paired assessment purposes has been difficult, despite the evolution of our view of language to include the social perspective of co-construction, and the fact that such discourse is increasingly taught and a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Mar-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631604380)
C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstruieren sind. C-Tests haben hervorragende psychometrische Eigenschaften und werden in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten zur validen und ökonomischen Messung allgemeiner Sp...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Mar-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631589465)
Provides an overview of language and (inter-)cultural assessment practices in European higher education and beyond (Australia, China and Japan). This title addresses the following questions: What sort of assessment is taking place? What purposes doe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Nov-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631589816)
The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing s...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-May-2009, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631585061)
It has long been noted that high-stakes language exams exert a powerful influence on teaching and learning, a phenomenon known as the washback effect (Alderson and Wall, 1993). However, due to the complex nature of the phenomenon, little research ha...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Dec-2005, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783631545959)
Pragmatic competence is an integral and indispensable component of overall language competence. Omitting the pragmatic dimension from language assessment is, therefore, quite unfortunate. This book describes the development and validation of three ......Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Jun-2004, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783631520628)
Die Reihe Language Testing and Evaluation veröffentlicht theoretische The aim of the Language Testing and Evaluation series is to provide a und empirische Forschung zum Testen und Evaluieren im Bereich des Lehrens forum for publishing theoretical......Daugiau...
