Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions

Herausgeber: Xi, Xiaoming; Norris, John M

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Produktbeschreibung

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780815350637
• ISBN-10: 0815350635
• Artikelnr.: 69986380

Autorenporträt

Xiaoming Xi is Chief of Product, Assessment and Learning at VIPKID International, USA. John M. Norris is Senior Research Director of the Center for Language Education and Assessment Research at Educational Testing Service, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1
Framing the Assessment of Academic English for Admissions Decisions
John M. Norris, John McE. Davis, and Xiaoming Xi
CHAPTER 2
Assessing Academic Reading
Mary Schedl, Tenaha O'Reilly, William Grabe, and Rob Schoonen
CHAPTER 3
Assessing Academic Listening
Spiros Papageorgiou, Jonathan Schmidgall, Luke Harding, Susan Nissan, and
Robert French
CHAPTER 4
Assessing Academic Writing
Alister Cumming, Yeonsuk Cho, Jill Burstein, Philip Everson, and Robert
Kantor
CHAPTER 5
Assessing Academic Speaking
Xiaoming Xi, John M. Norris, Gary J. Ockey, Glenn Fulcher, and James E.
Purpura
CHAPTER 6
Looking Ahead to the Next Generation of Academic English Assessments
Carol A. Chapelle
List of Contributors