Testing Spoken Language
Author: Nic Underhill
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9783125339880
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Testing Second Language Speaking
Author: Glenn Fulcher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 131787367X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process. Glenn Fulcher's Testing Second Language Speaking is a state-of-the-art volume that considers the assessment of speaking from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The book offers the first systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the testing of second language speaking. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it covers: Explanations of the process of test design Costing test design projects How to put the test into practice Evaluation of speaking tests Task types for testing speaking Testing learners with disabilities It also contains a wealth of examples, including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests and specific methodologies that teachers, students and test developers may use in their own projects. Successfully integrating practice and theory, this book demystifies the process of testing speaking and provides a thorough treatment of the key ethical and technical issues in speaking evaluation.
Test of Language Development-2
Author: Donald D. Hammill
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeasures language skills in the areas of both listening and speaking, including visual and oral vocabulary, word articulation and discrimination, grammar, and comprehension. Primary for children ages 4 to 8, intermediate for ages 8 to 12.
The Handbook of Language Assessment Across Modalities
Author: Tobias Haug
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 019088505X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The identification of language problems and subsequent evaluation of interventions depend in part on the availability of useful and psychometrically robust assessments to determine the nature and severity of their problems and monitor progress. The purpose of these assessments may be to measure a child's language proficiency, that is, how they perform relative to other children and whether they have the language level expected and needed for schooling, or they may have a specifically clinical purpose, to identify the occurrence and nature of a disorder. The purpose of assessment is key to the aspects of language targeted in an assessment and the methods used to target these. In the case of spoken English, there are many language assessments ranging from broad language tests to more narrowly focused measures, reflecting the complexity of the language system and its use"--
Testing for Language Teachers
Author: Arthur Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0521484952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition remains the most practical guide to testing language. It has a new chapter on testing young learners.
Automated Speaking Assessment
Author: Klaus Zechner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1351676113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutomated Speaking Assessment: Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech provides a thorough overview of state-of-the-art automated speech scoring technology as it is currently used at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Its main focus is related to the automated scoring of spontaneous speech elicited by TOEFL iBT Speaking section items, but other applications of speech scoring, such as for more predictable spoken responses or responses provided in a dialogic setting, are also discussed. The book begins with an in-depth overview of the nascent field of automated speech scoring—its history, applications, and challenges—followed by a discussion of psychometric considerations for automated speech scoring. The second and third parts discuss the integral main components of an automated speech scoring system as well as the different types of automatically generated measures extracted by the system features related to evaluate the speaking construct of communicative competence as measured defined by the TOEFL iBT Speaking assessment. Finally, the last part of the book touches on more recent developments, such as providing more detailed feedback on test takers’ spoken responses using speech features and scoring of dialogic speech. It concludes with a discussion, summary, and outlook on future developments in this area. Written with minimal technical details for the benefit of non-experts, this book is an ideal resource for graduate students in courses on Language Testing and Assessment as well as teachers and researchers in applied linguistics.
Testing in Language Programs
Author: James Dean Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-15
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780991585403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTesting in Language Programs is a textbook for graduate and undergraduate teacher training courses in language testing and assessment. Ideal for both classroom and personal reference, this book targets the needs of those making both program-level decisions (admissions, proficiency, and placement) as well as classroom-level decisions (e.g., assessing what students have learned through diagnostic and achievement testing.
A Principled Approach to Language Assessment
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2020-09-19
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 0309675480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States is formally represented around the world by approximately 14,000 Foreign Service officers and other personnel in the U.S. Department of State. Roughly one-third of them are required to be proficient in the local languages of the countries to which they are posted. To achieve this language proficiency for its staff, the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) provides intensive language instruction and assesses the proficiency of personnel before they are posted to a foreign country. The requirement for language proficiency is established in law and is incorporated in personnel decisions related to job placement, promotion, retention, and pay. A Principled Approach to Language Assessment: Considerations for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute evaluates the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency that FSI could potentially use. This report considers the key assessment approaches in the research literature that are appropriate for language testing, including, but not limited to, assessments that use task-based or performance-based approaches, adaptive online test administration, and portfolios.
A Qualitative Approach to the Validation of Oral Language Tests
Author: Anne Lazaraton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-18
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0521002672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to provide language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework.
Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment
Author: Marcus Callies
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9027268703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both speaking and writing, reflecting the growing importance of learner corpora in applied linguistics and second language acquisition research. Identifying several desiderata for future research and practice, the volume presents a selection of original studies, covering a variety of different languages. It features studies that present very thoroughly compiled new corpus resources which are tailor-made and ready for analysis in LTA, new tools for the automatic assessment of proficiency levels, and new methods of (self-)assessment with the help of learner corpora. Other studies suggest innovative research methodologies of how proficiency can be operationalized through learner corpus data. The volume is of particular interest to researchers in (applied) corpus linguistics, learner corpus research, language testing and assessment, as well as for materials developers and language teachers.
