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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 - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Tim McNamara’s work has had a fundamental impact on language testing. This volume brings together over 20 leading scholars in language assessment whose work has been influenced by Tim McNamara. Their papers cover issues of the social impact of language tests, such as fairness and justice of test use and language testing in the context of migration. They also address testing of interaction, and teachers’ and students’ views of language tests. The volume concludes with papers discussing the future of language testing in the face of contested concepts of validity, the rise of social media, and lingua franca language use.

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International Experiences in Language Testing and Assessment - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This publication is dedicated to the memory of Associate Professor Pavlos Pavlou, a distinguished language testing and assessment researcher, ELT practitioner, sociolinguist and esteemed faculty member at the University of Cyprus. The chapters included in the volume, written by distinguished scholars, researchers and practitioners in the field of language testing and assessment, are papers selected from presentations made at the 1 st International Conference of Language Testing and Assessment (ICLTA), which was dedicated to Pavlos’ memory. The conference was hosted at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia (3-5 June, 2011; http://www.iclta2011.com/cms/).

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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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Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott: Advanced Methods in Language Testing - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

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 tests, the acknowledgement of language varieties in high-stakes exams, fostering language assessment literacy or psychometric models to enhance C-test interpretations or scoring validity

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Testing ESL Sociopragmatics - Catherine Elder - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a sociopragmatic orientation and strives for a broad coverage of the construct by assessing learners’ metapragmatic judgments as well as their ability to co-construct discourse. To ensure practicality, the test is delivered online and is scored partially automatically and partially by human raters. We used the argument-based approach to validation, which showed that the test can support low-stakes decisions about learners’ knowledge of sociopragmatics in English.

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Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language - Florian Meyer - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? What inferences can be derived from HSK test taker scores, especially from Western test takers? How difficult is it to learn Chinese according to the HSK? Thirty years of research have been synthesized into an argument-based approach for validating the most widespread test for Chinese as a foreign language. In addition, the author has analyzed the scores of a sample of over 250 German test takers in order to investigate how many hours German natives needed on average to study for reaching a specific HSK level. This work also extensively discusses validation theory for psychological testing, and it demonstrates how to put an argument-based approach to validation into practice.

DKK 593.00

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Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews - Annie Brown - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book was the winner of the 2005 Jacqueline A. Ross Dissertation Award for second or foreign language testing. The assessment of speaking skills is an important part of the language learning process, whether carried out by teachers in the classroom or through proficiency tests administered by testing agencies. However, the complex and subjective nature of speaking assessment raises a number of important questions about the validity, reliability and fairness of test procedures. This book, which is based on research into the speaking test of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), shows how the performance of learners in oral proficiency interviews cannot be taken unequivocally as an indication of their ability, as variation in interviewer behaviour can have an impact both on learner performance and on ratings outcomes.

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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.

DKK 641.95

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