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Giraldo, Frank – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2020
With a communicative approach to language testing, performance assessment has taken on a prominent role in testing systems around the world. Specifically, Task-Based Assessment (TBA) is now being used to make inferences about people's language ability and what they can do with this construct under realistic communicative scenarios. This reflection…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Evaluation Methods
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Schwarzer, David; Bloom, Melanie – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2011
We believe that world language education at all levels of instruction in the United States is in crisis. In this article, we respond to this crisis by proposing a spectrum of situatedness and its relation to five distinct pedagogical approaches in world language education. We help to elucidate this spectrum with classroom vignettes, illustrating…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods