00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861985173 Buklod 20141212152014.0 g||| | || || ta 150213s2014 nyu r |||| u|eng d 9780415597241 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00015589604 BC-64322 Linar ₱ 2,339.10 DLC BAG rda eng P 53 G73 2014 Green, Anthony 1966- author. Exploring language assessment and testing language in action Anthony Green. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY Routledge Taylor & Francis Group ©2014. xvii, 269 pages illustrations 24 cm Routledge introductions to applied linguistics Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index. Putting language assessment in its place : Language as evidence about people -- Assessment and testing ; Purposes for assessment : Purposes for assessment -- Educational assessment in teaching and learning ; The practice of language assessment : Building quality systems for language assessment -- Effective assessment comes at a PRICE -- The assessment cycle ; The qualities of effective assessment systems : Four qualities of useful assessments -- Practicality -- Reliability -- Validity -- Interpretative arguments: assessing the evidence -- Assessments as maps -- Beneficial consequences -- Summary: the right tool for the job ; Assessing receptive skills : Defining reading and listening abilities -- Specifications -- Assessing grammar and vocabulary -- Preparing items for assessing reading and listening -- Trying out material -- Scoring performance -- Score reporting and feedback -- Standard setting ; Assessing productive and interactive skills : Defining productive and interactive language abilities -- Purposes for assessment -- Assessment design -- Speaking tasks -- Task review -- Trying out material -- Scoring performance -- Score reporting and feedback -- Standard setting ; Multiplication and division: trends in language assessment : Introduction -- What to test? Constructs -- The psycholinguistic--socio-linguistic phase -- Integrative testing -- The mastery learning movement -- Two approaches to score interpretation -- Pragmatic tests and the unitary competence hypothesis -- The `promised land' of communicative testing -- Rapprochement: communicative language ability -- Developments in formative assessment -- Assessment wars: teacher assessment versus external tests -- Ethical and critical language assessment -- Higher, wider, deeper: some emerging trends in language assessment -- Last words ; Commentary on selected tasks. Language and languages Ability testing. Language and languages Study and teaching. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN P 53 G73 2014 Book