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Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing using selecting and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess cont... Lees meer.

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The focus of the study was to explore Bangladesh secondary English teachers understandings about listening and speaking skills assessment as well as to learn the barriers and enablers they encounter in assessing those two skills. The study showed that the Bangladesh se... Lees meer.

This volume documents international national and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners across a range of educational contexts. Early language learning has become a major trend in English language education aroun... Lees meer.

This book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of students entering an English-medium university so that those with significant needs can have access to opportunities to enhance their language skills.... Lees meer.

This popular widely recommended text supports trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge and understanding of English is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status QTS . A rigorous and focused test enables trainees to identi... Lees meer.

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of the various kinds of language assessments used to determine people s ability to function linguistically in the workplace. This book is key reading for researchers graduate students and practitioners working in the area o... Lees meer.

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Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. Assessing Academic English for Higher Educ... Lees meer.

Drawn from two decades of the Educational Testing Service s extensive research and development on K-12 ELP assessments this edited book addresses the key considerations in the development of large-scale standards-based ELP assessments for K-12 EL students. Assessi... Lees meer.

A concern for quality and the growing number of international students have made the assessment of English for Academic Purposes a prime concern in British universities. By drawing on the expertise of BALEAP and many EAP specialists this collection describes and critic... Lees meer.

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second-language L2 learners written texts. Grounded in research data method theory and technology this will be a welcome how-to for language test developers and scholars and graduate students of L2 writing and... Lees meer.

For middle and high school teachers teachers of social studies and English this book is filled with examples of instructional strategies that address students readiness levels interests and learning preferences. It shows teachers how to formatively assess their stud... Lees meer.

This book reports in detail the newly developed Communicative Listening Comprehension Test CLCT for the National College English Test CET of China. Following the principles of communicative testing in general and test construction approach proposed by Bachman and Pa... Lees meer.