Glenn Fulcher

Broschiertes Buch

Practical Language Testing

Beschreibung

Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests. This practical guide offers step-by-step guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided with the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests.

Now in its second edition, this respected text has been substantially revised and updated, including a new chapter on validity drawing from the author's Messick Award for innovation in validity theory and practice. It also includes expanded coverage of standardised testing and learning-oriented assessment, and introduces task design features, including authenticity, and automated assessment.

With its frequently updated online resources to support language assessment (https://languagetesting.info/), this book is the ideal introduction for students of applied linguistics, TESOL and modern foreign language teaching, as well as practising teachers required to design or implement language testing programmes.

Autor

Glenn Fulcher is Emeritus Professor of Education and Language Assessment in the School of Education at the University of Leicester, UK. He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing and author of Re-examining Language Testing: A Philosophical and Social Inquiry. These two books jointly won the SAGE/ILTA Book Award in 2016. His other books include Language Testing and Assessment: An Advanced Resource Book and Testing Second Language Speaking. He has published over 100 research papers. In 2021 he received the Messick Memorial Award from Educational Testing Service, and in 2022 was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a UK National Teaching Fellow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• 2. Aufl. 2024.
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781032447285
• ISBN-10: 1032447281
• Artikelnr.: 70676051

Rezensionen

'I enjoyed reading this book and found it very stimulating. It has a wealth of interesting ideas from a whole range of sources within the language testing literature and beyond. It reflects current thinking about the nature of language assessment and engages with the problem areas that we all have to grapple with....A strong feature of the book is the Activities section at the end of each chapter. Many of these are...really well-conceived tasks based on interesting stimulus material that encourage readers to explore further and apply the ideas presented in the chapter'.

John Read, University of Auckland, New Zealand

'Practical Language Testing offers an overview of the field of language assessment and provides

instructions and guidelines for creating language tests that readers will likely find readable and useful....[T]he numerous examples from global contexts, the links to online resources and websites, and the extensive coverage of language testing theories make the text ideal for a range of language assessment classrooms in diverse contexts'.

Linguistics and Education 23

'an integral contribution to fostering language assessment literacy.... this book deserves high recommendation to the international language testing community'

Language Assessment Quarterly

'The presentation and discussion of material within this volume not only represents current trends in testing and assessment, but also invites both application and critique in a manner that will be of interest to a broad audience including students, teachers and seasoned language testers....Fulcher's balance of the technical and interpretive illustrates the potential and the challenges of language testing.'

Studies in Second Language Acquisition 33:04