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Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency
Martin East
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Description for Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency
Hardback. Series: Educational Linguistics. Num Pages: 246 pages, 14 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CJ; JNKD; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 537.
This book presents an in‐depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students’ spoken proficiency, called interact. The book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the centre of interest. It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups - teachers and students in schools - based on data collected ... Read more
This book presents an in‐depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students’ spoken proficiency, called interact. The book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the centre of interest. It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups - teachers and students in schools - based on data collected ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Educational Linguistics
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811003011
SKU
V9789811003011
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Ref
99-15
About Martin East
Martin East is currently Associate Dean (Research) and a language teacher educator in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. His principal research interests are in ways of enhancing the effectiveness of language teaching, learning and assessment, and he publishes widely in these areas.
Reviews for Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency
“This book makes a valuable contribution to the extent to which formative and summative assessment can be conflated for language teaching. It should be of interest to language education researchers, students, teachers and NZ decision makers who must decide the direction of interact.” (R. M. Genet, L. N. Conner and V. M. O’Toole, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. ... Read more