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Wolf, Mikyung Kim – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
This commentary highlights major validation challenges raised, explicitly or implicitly, from the four articles in the special issue on "Validity Considerations for Assessing Language Proficiency in Young Language Minority Students." They are concerned with: (1) the construct definition in consideration of young language-minority (LM)…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Proficiency, Student Characteristics, Student Evaluation
Suraweera, Dulani – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
While learning and teaching English as an additional language are lifelong learning processes for both learners and teachers, these two sectors are largely dominated by West-centric linguistic and cultural imperialism, epistemic hegemony, racism, and neoliberalism, which are tied to colonialism and imperialism. In light of this issue, I argue that…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Little, David – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
I begin this article by briefly explaining why I think CercleS should encourage university language centres to align their courses and assessment with the proficiency levels of the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" (CEFR) and why they should use a version of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) to support the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
McNamara, Tim; Hill, Kathryn – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
The suggested role for assessment in developing "Roadmaps for Learning" has potentially important implications for the learning of second or foreign languages in school, a major concern of applied linguistics. In this response, the authors consider how the findings of a detailed ethnographic study of classroom-based assessment in two…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Indonesian, Student Evaluation
Pandya, Jessica Zacher – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
In this commentary I unpack the Pandora's Box of issues related to the assessment of English language learners' literacy skill development in multimodal classrooms. I ask how we might quantify the benefits of multimodal composing, for k-12 as well as college students, given the existing complexity of assessing ELLs' traditional literacy skills. I…
Descriptors: Literacy, Second Language Learning, Skill Development, Skill Analysis
Frackman, Kyle – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2011
This essay focuses on advanced-level German instruction and advocates an open, flexible approach to integrating the recommendations of the much-discussed 2007 MLA report on "Foreign Languages and Higher Education." Specifically, language, literature, film, and cultural studies are combined to allow for the development of transcultural competence…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Courses
Pappamihiel, N. Eleni; Walser, Tamara M. – Educational Forum, 2009
Schools struggle to accurately assess nonnative speakers of English using accountability systems that somehow do not capture the complexity of the issues at hand. This article discusses topics surrounding the assessment of English language learners and how these issues have been oversimplified by such processes as the No Child Left Behind…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Accountability, English (Second Language)
Aminy, Marina; Karathanos, Katya – Issues in Teacher Education, 2011
While programs have been established to support secondary level English Learners (ELs) in their transition to institutions of higher education (IHEs), limited attention has been given to how to support adult ELs who struggle with the academic language demands of their college or university content-area courses. Research indicates that many EL…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Discourse, Student Teachers, Speech Communication
DelliCarpini, Margo, Ed. – English Journal, 2009
Several issues make standardized assessment of ELLs a challenge and the information provided by these assessments unreliable. However, as educators, they do need to know how students are doing, what gains they are making, where gaps in their understanding exist, and what types of instructional strategies and topics need to be introduced to…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Performance Based Assessment, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Cumming, Alister – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
In this article, the author discusses issues that have seemed most fundamental--yet perplexing because they are not well or widely understood--for the students who usually take his masters-level course called Second-Language Assessment. These master's students are experienced teachers, mostly of English, but also of other languages such as French…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Boldt, Gail Masuchika, Ed.; Salvio, Paula M., Ed.; Taubman, Peter M., Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2009
Concerned that various reforms promising greater professional autonomy and status as well as student success are actually disempowering teachers, impoverishing intellectual life in schools, and serving as a portal for the marketization of teaching and education, editors invited teachers to respond to the ways in which the proliferation of…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Student Evaluation, Accountability, Classroom Environment
Kobayashi, Miyoko; Negishi, Masashi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
This article presents an interview with Professor Kenji Ohtomo who retired in March 2006 from the post of Dean, College of Applied International Studies, Tokiwa University, Mito, in Japan. Professor Ohtomo is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Honorary President of the Japan Language Testing Association, of which he…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Interviews
Norris, John M. – Forum, 2000
In choosing language testing alternatives appropriate for their language education contexts, language teachers need to keep in mind the purposeful nature of language assessment. Purposeful language assessment involves focusing what is to be accomplished by language assessment, specifying intended uses of language tests, selecting appropriate…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Student Evaluation

Partington, John – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1988
Foreign-language examinations do not adequately or reliably assess level of skill. Standards and criteria for determining a student's skill level should be improved to provide more guidance and make more appropriate placements in foreign-language classrooms. (CB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Language Skills, Language Tests, Second Language Learning

Scarino, Angela – Babel, 2001
Addresses the following issues as they relate to the concept of standards in education: the content of standards, defining standards, setting standards, and using standards. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning