Titlebook: Language Testing and Assessment; Elana Shohamy,Iair G. Or,Stephen May Reference work 2017Latest edition Springer International Publishing

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Assessing Meaningvariegated meanings in a wide range of language use contexts. It stands to reason then that meaning and meaning conveyance should play a central role in L2 assessment. Instead, since the 1980s, language testers have focused almost exclusively on functional proficiency (the conveyance of functional m

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Language Assessment in the US Governmentguage Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level Descriptions, the US government has developed and administered tests not only in proficiency skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) but led the way in performance testing (translation, audio translation, and interpretation) and intercultural competence. The

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Testing Aptitude for Second Language Learning that made some people better able to learn a second language than others. Carroll’s work culminated in the Modern Language Aptitude Test, and Carroll’s work on aptitude in general and on the MLAT in particular continues to provide the foundation for the development of new aptitude tests and for res

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Assessing English as a Lingua Francame kind of coercion. English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has the largest number of users of English worldwide, of whom the vast majority are nonnative speakers. The resulting diversity and emergent nature of ELF communication mean that it is not amenable to being captured in descriptions of

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Task and Performance-Based Assessmentow they are assessed has become a considerable focus of research. During the 1990s, performance assessment evolved alongside the multicomponential models of language that were emerging, while, at the same time, detailed frameworks of task characteristics were discussed which provided basis for both

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Using Portfolios for Assessment/Alternative AssessmentHowever, some (e.g., Bailey, K. .. Pacific Grove: Heinle & Heinle, 1998) have argued that it is more accurate to regard such tests and testing practices as one end of a continuum of assessment possibilities or alternatives . assessment. Although there are many alternative assessment approaches (see,

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Utilizing Technology in Language Assessmenting (CALT), with a focus on technology for delivering tests and processing test takers’ linguistic responses. The past developments include technical accomplishments that contributed to the development of computer-adaptive testing for efficiency, visions of innovation in language testing, and explor

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