Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Nikolov, Marianne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Educational Linguistics, 25
• Θέματα: Education.; Language and education.; Assessment.; Language Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Learning & Instruction.

This volume documents international, national, and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners, across a range of educational contexts. It covers three main areas: age-appropriate ‘can do statements’ and task types for teaching and testing learners be...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Trends, Issues and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners by Marianne Nikolov
•  Do Developments in Assessment Represent the ‘Coming of Age’ of Young Learners English Language Teaching Initiatives? The International Picture by Shelagh Rixon
• A CEFR-Based Inventory of YL Descriptors: Principles and Challenges by Veronica Benigno and John de Jong
• A Framework for Young EFL Learners’ Diagnostic Assessment: Can Do Statements and Task Types by Marianne Nikolov
• Examining Content Representativeness of a Young Learner Language Assessment: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives by Ching-Ni Hsieh
• Developing and Piloting Proficiency Tests for Polish Young Learners by Magdalena Szpotowicz and Dorota E. Campfield
• The Development and Validation of a Computer-Based Test of English for Young Learners: Cambridge English Young Learners by Szilvia Papp and Agnieszka Walczak
• Learning EFL from Year 1 or Year 3? A Comparative Study on Children’s EFL Listening and Reading Comprehension at the End of Primary Education by Eva Wilden and Raphaela Porsch
• A Longitudinal Study of a School’s Assessment Project in Chongqing, China by Jing Peng and Shicheng Zheng
• Individual Differences and Young Learners’ Performance on L2 Speaking Tests by Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
• The Role of Individual Differences in the Development of Listening Comprehension in the Early Stages of Language Learning by Éva Bacsa and Csaba Csíkos
• Self-Assessment of and for Young Learners’ Foreign Language Learning by Yuko Goto Butler
• The Relationships between Peer- and Self-Assessment and Teacher Assessment of Young EFL Learners’ Oral Presentations by Yu-ju Hung, Beth Lewis Samuelson, and Shu-cheng Chen.