The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing

Herausgeber: Fulcher, Glenn; Harding, Luke

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing provides an updated and comprehensive account of the area of language testing and assessment. It represents an invaluable resource for students, researchers and practitioners working in the field of language testing and assessment.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 253mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1326g
• ISBN-13: 9781138385436
• ISBN-10: 1138385433
• Artikelnr.: 62275341

Autorenporträt

Glenn Fulcher is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment. He has served as president of the International Language Testing Association and as editor of the journal Language Testing. His Routledge book Re-examining Language Testing was joint winner of the SAGE/ILTA book award, together with the first edition of this Handbook. Luke Harding is Professor in Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University (UK). His research interests are in applied linguistics and language assessment, particularly assessing listening and speaking, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca, and language assessment literacy and professional ethics. He is currently co-editor of the journal Language Testing.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Editorial
Section 1: Validity
Chapter 1: Conceptions of validity.
Chapter 2: Articulating a validity argument.
Chapter 3: Inference and prediction in language testing.
Section 2: The Uses of Language Testing
Chapter 4: Social dimensions of language testing.
Chapter 5: Designing language tests for specific purposes.
Chapter 6: Revisiting language assessment for immigration and citizenship.
Section 3: Classroom Assessment and Washback
Chapter 7: Classroom based assessment.
Chapter 8: Washback: looking backwards and forwards.
Chapter 9: Assessing young learners.
Chapter 10: Dynamic assessment.
Chapter 11: Diagnostic assessment in language classrooms.
Section 4: Assessing the Language Skills
Chapter 12: Assessing speaking.
Chapter 13: Assessing listening.
Chapter 14: Assessing writing.
Chapter 15: Assessing reading.
Section 5: Test Design and Administration
Chapter 16: Test specifications.
Chapter 17: Evidence-centred design in language testing.
Chapter 18: Accommodations and universal design.
Chapter 19: Rater and interlocutor training.
Section 6: Writing Items and Tasks
Chapter 20: Item writing and item writers.
Chapter 21: Writing integrated tasks.
Chapter 22: Test-taking strategies and task design.
Section 7: Prototyping and Field Tests
Chapter 23: Prototyping new item types.
Chapter 24: Pre-operational testing.
Chapter 25: Piloting vocabulary tests.
Section 8: Measurement Theory in Language Testing
Chapter 26: Classical test theory.
Chapter 27: Item Response Theory and Many-Facet Rasch Measurement.
Chapter 28: Reliability and dependability.
Chapter 29: Scoring performance tests.
Section 9: Technology in Language Testing
Chapter 30: Validity and the automated scoring of performance tests.
Chapter 31: Computer-based testing.
Chapter 32: Corpus linguistics and language testing.
Section 10: Ethics, Fairness and Policy
Chapter 33: Ethics and fairness.
Chapter 34: Standards in language proficiency measurement.
Chapter 35: Quality management in test production and administration.
Epilogue
Chapter 36: Language testing: where are we heading?
Index