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Collaboration in Language Testing and Assessment - Bog - Hardback

Collaboration in Language Testing and Assessment

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Social perspectives on language testing - Papers in honour of Tim McNamara - Bog - Hardback

This Festschrift for Tim McNamara brings together papers on the social impact of language tests, such as fairness and justice of test use, testing of interaction, and teachers' and students' views of language tests. It also discusses the future of language testing with regard to validity, the rise of social media, and lingua franca language use.

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International Experiences in Language Testing and Assessment - Selected Papers in Memory of Pavlos Pavlou - Bog - Hardback

This volume, written by distinguished scholars, researchers and practitioners in the field of language testing and assessment, includes selected papers presented at the 1st International Conference of Language Testing and Assessment (ICLTA). It is dedicated to the memory of Pavlos Pavlou, esteemed faculty member at the University of Cyprus.

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The Rise of High-Stakes Educational Testing in Denmark (1920-1970) - Bog af Christian Ydesen - Paperback

An attempt to determine why and how tests rose to prominence in an educational system that used to rely on qualitative tests and teacher evaluations. It addresses the important issues of how testing interacts with and influences an educational system, and which common factors are involved in order to implement testing in an educational system.

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Tasks and Criteria in Performance Assessment - Proceedings of the 28th Language Testing Research Colloquium - Bog af Rüdiger Grotjahn & Gunther Sigot

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The Local Health Impact of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing - Cancer Epidemiology in Areas Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan - Bo

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Language Testing in Austria: Taking Stock / Sprachtesten in Oesterreich: Eine Bestandsaufnahme - Bog - Hardback

This book describes language test development and language testing research in Austria. It documents large-scale test development for German as a first language, the foreign languages English, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as Latin and Ancient Greek. The accompanying validation research is accommodated in a framework of test validation.

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Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott: Advanced Methods in Language Testing - Bog - Hardback

This Festschrift has been compiled to honour Günther Sigott for his notable contributions to academia in general and to the field of language testing in particular. The contributors to this volume come from all over the world, spanning regions from Austria and its neighbouring countries Slovenia and Germany, to the UK, USA, all the way to Japan and Iran. They work as test developers, teacher educators, psychometricians and researchers, taking up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized..

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Diagnostic Writing Assessment - The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale - Bog af Ute Knoch - Hardback

The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing situations. This book presents a study which set out to develop and validate a rating scale specifically designed for the diagnostic assessment of writing in an academic English setting. The scale was developed by analysing a large number of writing performances..

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Linkages in South African Economic Development - Industrialisation without Diversification? - Bog af Oliver Schwank - Hardback

Focuses on the structure of South Africa's economy, its industrial sector and inter-sectoral linkages by simulating an economic geography model of the vertical linkages type, by testing linkage strength econometrically and by analysing industrial policy's role in shaping its development path.

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Marketing Luxury Goods Online - Bog af Philipp Nikolaus Kluge - Hardback

The objectives of this book are threefold: First, conceptually examining the specific marketing-mix for luxury goods. Second, applying this marketing-mix to the online world. Third, empirically testing the effects of the online accessibility of luxury goods on consumer perceptions of scarcity and desirability.

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Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World - A Guide (not only) for Teachers - Bog - Hardback

The volume offers a fresh perspective on 21st century language instruction. It discusses approaches to teaching, contexts of instruction, testing and assessment, curriculum development and using technology in the classroom, and focuses on developing speaking and writing skills, intercultural communicative competence, and cultural knowledge.

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Statistical Inference in Multifractal Random Walk Models for Financial Time Series - Bog af Cristina Sattarhoff - Paperback

Multifractal Random Walk models can capture statistical relation between returns and return periods, thus facilitating an accurate representation of real price changes. This book provides a method of moments estimation technique for model parameters with enhanced performance in finite samples, and a novel testing procedure for multifractality.

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The Influence of Aural Training in Music on the Perceptive Performance of Adult Learners’ Sound-Discrimination Abilities in an Unknown Foreign Languag

Can aural training in music enhance your sound-discrimination abilities for languages? This study sets off to answer this question by testing 50 German-speaking students of non-linguistic degrees for their abilities to discriminate between sounds in Finnish, a language previously entirely unknown to them.

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The Co-construction of Conversation in Group Oral Tests - Bog af Fumyo Nakatsuhara - Hardback

This book explores how language test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels co-construct interaction in group oral tests. It compares interactions across three tasks and between two group sizes. The findings offer useful implications for international language testing by enhancing our understanding of the group test construct.

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English Language Education Policies and Practices in the Mediterranean Countries and Beyond - Bog af Yasemin Bayyurt - Hardback

This edited volume seeks ways to present a unifying picture of TESOL policies and practices from different contexts in the broader Mediterranean basin and beyond. The main topics are: English language education; English language teacher education and recruitment policy; English language testing policies and practices in different contexts.

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Assessment Issues in Language Translation and Interpreting - Bog - Hardback

The need for reliable and valid assessments of translator and interpreter (T&I) skills has been widely acknowledged inside and outside these professions and the (language) testing community. The focus of the volume is on assessment of T&I leading to authorization, accreditation, registration and certification in different countries of the world.

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Receptive and Productive L2 Vocabularies - Acquisition, Growth and Assessment - Bog af Malgorzata Krzeminska-Adamek - Hardback

The book discusses topics in learning foreign language lexis, including the bilingual lexicon, lexical competence and trends in vocabulary testing. It also reports on a longitudinal study of the changes in the receptive and productive lexicons of advanced learners of English. The results carry implications for course design and assessment in TEFL.

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The Rlic of Ireland – Economic and Social Ecology in a Layered Perspective - Bog af Andrea Jende - Paperback

The main objective is testing the application of a multi-level framework in order to reveal the ecological influences on human behavior and decision-making processes that impact social and economic development. It is also tested whether a multi-level framework is able to reveal links between social and economic development and cultural change.

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Testing ESL Sociopragmatics - Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery - Bog af Carsten Roever - Hardback

This book describes the development and argument-based validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for broad coverage of the construct by assessing metapragmatic judgment as well as the ability to co-construct discourse.

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Strategic Attention in Language Testing - Metacognition in a Yes/No Business English Vocabulary Test - Bog af Dieter Thoma - Paperback

Offers a discussion of business English vocabulary, a psycholinguistic discussion of what aspects of linguistic knowledge and (meta)cognitive processing mechanisms are involved in completing the task, a psychometric-methodological discussion of how these aspects are measured and scored, and an applied discussion of the usefulness of the test.

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Testing Lexicogrammar - An Investigation into the Construct Tested in the Language in Use Section of the Austrian Matura in English - Bog af Theresa

This book explores the construct of language in use, specifically as operationalised through different item types in the Austrian Matura. The findings suggest that the tasks under investigation assess grammatical form and meaning at the sub-sentential and sentential level.

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Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language - An Argument-Based Approach for Validating the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) - Bog af Fl

How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? 30 years of research have been synthesized into an argument-based approach for validity for the HSK, finally yielding into an argument about the validity of the most widespread language proficiency test for Chinese as a foreign language.

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