Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World
Assessing EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World

Author: Abdelhamid Ahmed

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 3319641042

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This book empirically explores assessment of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing in different Arab world contexts at the university level, which often presents a challenge for teachers and students alike. Analysing a number of different practices throughout the chapters including peer assessment, self-assessment, e-rubrics and writing coherence, the authors highlight different issues and challenges that affect the assessment of EFL writing in the Arab world, and provide valuable insights into how it can be improved. This book is sure to become an important practical resource for practitioners, researchers, professors and graduate students working on EFL writing in this region.

Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World
Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World

Author: Abdelhamid Ahmed

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1137467266

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Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. Both theoretically and practically grounded, chapters within discuss the different contexts in which EFL writing is taught, from primary school to university. The book sheds light on how EFL writing is learned and taught at each educational stage, exposing the different challenges encountered in the teaching and learning. The focus on EFL writing in the Arab World makes this a unique and long overdue contribution to the field of research around EFL writing and will be an invaluable resource for researchers, curriculum designers and students.

Feedback in L2 English Writing in the Arab World
Feedback in L2 English Writing in the Arab World

Author: Abdelhamid M. Ahmed

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 3030258300

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This edited book uses case studies to offer a comprehensive picture of the feedback practices and perceptions pertinent to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in the Arab world. It highlights essential themes about feedback in L2 writing in eight Arab countries, and offers a detailed critical analysis of feedback practices and perceptions in six of these: Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. The book will appeal to an international readership of academics, researchers and practitioners interested in EFL writing in the Arab world.

Language Testing and Assessment: Practices and Challenges in the 21st Century
Language Testing and Assessment: Practices and Challenges in the 21st Century

Author: Dr. Heny Hartono

Publisher: Soegijapranata Catholic University

Published:

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 6237635386

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Despite the fact that language assessment has become one of the most crucial aspects of language teaching, there have been many challenges faced by teachers and language test designers. New challenges include online language classroom assessment and language assessment for class teachers who use English as the medium of instruction (EMI). The time of covid-19 pandemic will not stop the increased need for language assessment. Therefore, issues in language testing and assessment are worth to be well documented through academic articles.

The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region
The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region

Author: Lee McCallum

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-19

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 3030532542

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This edited book brings together contributions from different educational contexts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in order to explore how L2 English writing is assessed. Across seven MENA countries, the book covers aspects of practice including: task design and curriculum alignment, test (re)development, rubric design, the subjective decision making that underpins assessing students’ writing and feedback provision, learner performance and how research methods help shed light on initiatives to improve student writing. In such coverage, chapter authors provide concrete evidence of how assessment practice is governed by their unique context, yet also influenced by international standards, trends and resources. This book will be of interest to second language teachers, assessors and programme developers as well as test designers and evaluators.

Diversity Education in the MENA Region
Diversity Education in the MENA Region

Author: Hassan Abouabdelkader

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-13

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 3031426932

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This book outlines a landscape of diversity education in the MENA region and its repercussions on learners' abilities, outcomes, and prospects. It addresses the concerns of language educators, curriculum designers, language education researchers, students and trainers. Theoretically, the issues of diversity, inclusion and equity share common principles and insights; yet they are not conceived of in this book as interchangeable. These subtle distinctions, as delineated in this book, show that they are complementary and include the principles of quality education which leverage human rights, sustainability and promotion of the human capital. What makes this book distinctive is that it reconsiders the existing pedagogical trends in terms of the current social upheavals, and with reference to the principles of development and progress needed in twenty-first century education.

Language Assessment Literacy
Language Assessment Literacy

Author: Dina Tsagari

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 152754978X

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The field of language testing and assessment has recognized the importance and underlying theoretical and practical underpinnings of language assessment literacy (LAL), an area that is gradually coming to prominence. This book addresses issues that promote the concept of LAL for language research, teaching, and learning, covering a range of topics. It brings together 14 chapters based on high-stakes and classroom-based studies authored by academics, professionals and researchers in the field. The text examines diverse issues through a multifaceted approach, presenting high-quality contributions that fill a gap in a research area that has long been in need of theoretical and empirical attention.

Proceedings of the HCT International General Education Conference (HCT-IGEC 2023)
Proceedings of the HCT International General Education Conference (HCT-IGEC 2023)

Author: Andrew Johnston

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9464632860

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This is an open access book. The Higher Colleges of Technology’s General Studies Division, and the HCT-Dubai Women’s campus, hosted the HCT International General Education Conference (online edition) on October 5, 2022, under the theme of Practice and Pedagogy in General Education. General Education, in today’s hyper-connected and virtual world, plays a vital role in providing students with a range of opportunities to develop their abilities to think critically and creatively. This, in turn, fosters an innovative mindset, enriching students’ understanding of the wider social and cultural contexts in which they will live and work. Hence, the discipline of General Education provides students with much-needed breadth and depth of knowledge – from developing mathematical skills to raising awareness of sustainability issues and improving communication skills. The conference organizing committee welcomes higher education scholars, researchers and teachers from around the world to participate in the online, free-of-charge conference, by sharing teaching and learning best practices and techniques, pedagogical delivery and enhancement, current research endeavors and the optimization of student learning and engagement, in an inclusive and collaborative environment that promotes knowledge sharing and exchange, as well as networking and camaraderie. Educators and researchers from across the different academic disciplines within the field of General Education are welcome to attend and share their insights, experiences and expertise to ensure a rich and productive discussion.

International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community
International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community

Author: Phan Le Ha

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2022-06-16

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1800415494

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This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates. It examines the ways in which international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education system position themselves, negotiate, interact, adjust, make sense of their classroom dynamics, and validate their senses of selves and pedagogies in their day-to-day (dis)engagement with their institutions and encounters at work. Informed by rich empirical data from a multi-year, multi-site project in addition to other qualitative studies, the book reveals on-the-ground complexities involving speaker status, language, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, sociocultural factors, emotion labour, work dynamic and professionalism. It promotes thinking beyond normative ideologies on marginalisation, the native and non-native speaker dichotomy, linguistic, racial, religious and ethnic (inter)relations, and translanguaging pedagogies, while also offering new material for original theorisation in multi-Englishes multilingualism, local-trusting-local and the limits of negotiability.

Studies and Essays on Learning, Teaching and Assessing L2 Writing in Honour of Alister Cumming
Studies and Essays on Learning, Teaching and Assessing L2 Writing in Honour of Alister Cumming

Author: A. Mehdi Riazi

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1527549518

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This volume highlights some of the main issues and questions surrounding the field of second language (L2) writing, and includes 14 chapters authored by contributors from a wide variety of geographical regions including, but not limited to, North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The authors are all experienced L2 writing researchers, and their contributions will enhance the reader’s understanding of issues related to L2 writing. Considering the breadth and the depth of the issues raised and discussed, the book will appeal to a wide readership, including postgraduate students of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Applied Linguistics (AL), and both early-career and experienced TESOL/AL researchers.