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Download full textDimova, Slobodanka – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
Drawing on Glenn Fulcher's extensive work in performance-based language assessment of speaking, this paper explores the assessment of L2 speaking ability in local language testing contexts. For that purpose, I review Fulcher's influential work that highlights the relationship between the speaking construct, the task, the performance, and the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Speech Communication, Performance Based Assessment, Second Language Learning
Direct linkOnalan, Okan; Gursoy, Esim – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
Assessment processes and results are a substantial tool in providing feedback not only to learners, but also to teachers. Therefore, teachers' conception of assessment is significant in understanding how they make use of assessment as an integral part of their teaching practices. This study aims to identify Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation
Tan, Kimberly – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
In L2 assessment research, assessments have traditionally been associated with large-scale testing or formal proficiency tests, primarily to record student achievement (Turner & Purpura, 2016). Classroom-based assessments (CBAs), then, are seen as offshoots of large-scale tests, thus, designed similarly (Turner, 2012). However, CBAs serve a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Tajeddin, Zia; Khatib, Mohammad; Mahdavi, Mohsen – Language Testing, 2022
Critical language assessment (CLA) has been addressed in numerous studies. However, the majority of the studies have overlooked the need for a practical framework to measure the CLA dimension of teachers' language assessment literacy (LAL). This gap prompted us to develop and validate a critical language assessment literacy (CLAL) scale to further…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Spinelli, Cathleen G. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2008
Existing research indicates that there is a disproportionate number of students with cultural and linguistic differences, English Language Learners (ELL), who are misidentified as learning disabled when their problems are due to cultural and/or linguistic differences. As a consequence, these students do not receive appropriate services. With the…
Descriptors: Informal Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Cultural Pluralism
Madsen, Harold S. – 1987
A study investigated the effectiveness of the Rasch procedure in measuring response appropriateness, especially for the detection of cheating on multiple-choice language tests. The report gives background information on appropriateness measurement and its potential uses, reviews recent research on cheating and its detection, and describes three…
Descriptors: Cheating, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Language Tests
van Daalen, Margaret – Dialog on Language Instruction, 1999
Explores test usefulness in alternative assessment and discusses self-assessment, portfolios and diaries, video and peer observations, and peer assessment. The concept of washback (how the test affects processes of learning and instruction) and concerns about alternative assessment are also addressed. Considerations for implementing alternative…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Diaries, Evaluation Methods, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedNorris, John M. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1997
Discusses the utility of the German Speaking Test (GST) as a general test of German foreign-language proficiency, examining whether it can be used effectively in classroom and institutional foreign-language settings and how proficiency ratings based on the GST relate to examinees' real-world German communicative abilities. Caveats regarding the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, German, Higher Education
Genesee, Fred; Upshur, John A. – 1996
The guide is designed to assist second language teachers in developing and conducting reliable and valid assessments in their classrooms. A wide range of formal and informal evaluation techniques is discussed, including a number of alternative approaches. An introductory chapter gives an overview of the uses and aims of evaluation and previews the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Dialog Journals
Wing, Barbara H.; Mayewski, Sandi F. – 1984
A handbook designed to acquaint college and university language departments with recent developments in oral proficiency testing gives an overview of the rationale, development, procedures, and implications of oral proficiency evaluation. The discussion is placed in the context of college and university language teaching. An overview section…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development
Kohonen, V.; And Others – 1988
A collection of papers on evaluation and testing in language learning and teaching for communicative competence includes: "Evaluation in Relation to Communicative Language Teaching" (Viljo Kohonen); "On Determining the Function and Quality of Language Tests" (Jan van Weeren); "On the Trail of Everyday Experience...The Individual Learner's…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Databases, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Rhodes, Nancy C. – 1996
An alternative assessment instrument developed to assess oral language skills of students in Spanish immersion programs in the United States is described. Originally developed by the Center for Applied Linguistic to evaluate 6-year-old immersion students' speaking and listening skills in a school in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the Student Oral…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Cordova, Rose Mary; Phelps, L. Allen – 1982
This handbook is designed to assist teachers, administrators, counselors, and others involved in identifying, assessing, and placing limited English proficient (LEP) students in vocational education programs. The handbook consists of four sections. The first section offers a series of suggested approaches and procedures to use in identifying LEP…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Classroom Observation Techniques, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Center for Professional Development. – 1991
In April 1991, members of the Kentucky Educational Research Association (KERA), held a conference to discuss performance assessment and its use in Kentucky schools. The following papers from the conference are included: (1) "Our Conference and the Performance Assessment Committee" (S. Kifer); (2) "Performance Assessment: A National…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Conference Papers, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Brown, James Dean – 1995
A systematic approach to second language curriculum development is outlined, enumerating the phases and activities involved in developing and implementing a sound and effective language program. The first chapter describes a system whereby all language teaching activities can be classified into approaches, syllabuses, techniques, exercises, or…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
