The Concise Companion to Language Assessment
The field of language assessment is an active and ever-changing field of applied linguistics scholarship. With interconnections with many linguistic subfields--from language teaching to language policy to the sociolinguistics of immigration--language assessment has a real, measurable impact on the lives of language learners, both in the contexts of first and foreign language learning. In an increasingly globalized world, language assessment must continue to evolve in concert with the needs of language learners worldwide.
First published in 2014, The Companion to Language Assessment was the first works of its kind. As a four-volume major reference work, it brought together the full field of language assessment into a comprehensive resource that examined all aspects of language assessment across 35 world languages. Building upon the success of the major reference work, The Concise Companion to Language Assessment will collect a selection of some of the most popular chapters from the full work, along with a large selection of wholly new chapters, in a single-volume edition for undergraduate, post-graduate, and graduate students studying language assessment, language teaching and learning, TESOL, second language acquisition, language policy, and other related fields. The Concise Companion accounts for the most recent changes in the field through an increased focus on technology in language assessment and classroom-based assessment, with new coverage of learning-oriented assessment, teacher-based assessment, teacher assessment literacy, writing, pronunciation, speaking, plurilingual assessment, assessment for immigration, and many others. The Concise Companion will also include an almost entirely new selection of articles on innovations in assessment, and throughout the work, new emphasis will be placed on the impacts of colonialism and discrimination on the history of language assessment.
In 56 chapters--29 of which will be new-- The Concise Companion to Language Assessment will provide an ideal reference for students pursuing degrees in applied linguistics who are interested in working in language assessment, education, and policy. It is sure to become a standard recommended text for the next generation of applied linguistics students.
About the contributors
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Theme 1: Fundamental considerations
1 How to conceptualize and implement a language assessment, Lyle Bachman and Barbara Damböck
2 Learning-oriented language assessment, James Enos Purpura
3 Assessing Integrated skills, Alister Cumming
4 Dynamic assessment in the classroom, Matthew Poehner
5 Designing evaluations for validation of language assessments, Carol A. Chapelle, Erik Voss and Haeun Kim
6 Fairness and justice in language assessment, Antony John Kunnan
7 Statistics and software for test revisions, Yo In'nami and Rie Koizumi
8 Language assessment and artificial intelligence, Erik Voss
Theme 2: Assessing Language skills and resources
9 Assessing listening, Elvis Wagner
10 Assessing speaking, Barry O'Sullivan
11 Assessing reading, William Grabe and Xiangying Jiang
12 Assessing writing, Cecilia Guanfang Zhao
13 Assessing the linguistic resources of meaningful communication, James Enos Purpura and Saerhim Oh
14 Assessing vocabulary, John Read
15 Assessing pronunciation, Talia Isaacs
16 Assessing intercultural competence and pragmatics, Carsten Roever
Theme 3: Assessment development and evaluation
17 English as Lingua Franca, Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung
18 Scenario-based language assessment, Heidi Liu Banerjee
19 Adapting or developing source materials for listening and reading tests, Anthony Green
20 Automated writing assessment, Sara T. Cushing and Sha Liu
Theme 4: Assessment contexts
21 Classroom-based assessment issues for language teacher education, Constant Leung
22 Assessing young language learners, Mikyung Kim Wolf
23 Monitoring progress in the classroom, Matthew E. Poehner and Rama Mathew
24 Diagnostic feedback in the 21st century technology-rich classroom, Eunhee Jang, Maryam Wagner, Liam Hannah, and Hyunah Kim
25 Evolution and future trends in tests of English for university admissions, Xiaoming Xi, Brent Bridgman and Cathy Wendler
26 Assessing health and other professionals, Lynda Taylor and John Pill
27 Acoustic and temporal analysis for assessing speaking, Okim Kang and Lucy Pickering
Theme 5: Assessment for immigration and citizenship
28 Language testing for residence and citizenship in Europe: Justification, consequences and debate, Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen
29 Language assessment for immigration in Australia: Test policy-discourse entanglements and their ethical implications, Kellie Frost
30 U.S. immigration, citizenship, and the Naturalization Test, Antony John Kunnan
Theme 6: Qualitative research methods
31 Introspective methods, Miyuki Sasaki and Yuhang Hu
32 Test-taking strategies, Yuyang Cai
33 Consequences, impact, washback, Liying Cheng
34 Language testing in the dock, Glenn Fulcher
Theme 7: Quantitative research methods
35 Historical overview of Classical Theory - reliability, James Dean Brown
36 Classical Test Theory reliability, Yasuyo Sawaki
37 Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Score Interpretations in language assessments, Ikkyu Choi
38 Exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, Gary Ockey
39 Item Response Theory in language assessment, Shangchao Min and Lianzhen He
40 Many-facet Rasch Analysis for Evaluating Second Language Tests, Khaled Barkaoui
41 Psychometric considerations for computer-adaptive language testing, Steven W. Nydick, J.R. Lockwood, and Mancy Liao
Theme 8: The role of technology
42 Computer-Assisted language testing: Focus on attributes, values and key research, Ruslan Suvorov, Yasin Karatay and Volker Hegelheimer
43 Computer-adaptive language testing: Focus on language tests, Ramsey Cardwell, Ben Naismith, and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
44 Automated writing evaluation in high-stakes testing, Jill Burstein and Yigal Attali
45 Detecting plagiarism and cheating, Ardeshir Geranpayeh
Index
