Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency Stakeholder Perspectives on Assessment Innovation /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: East, Martin (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Educational Linguistics, 26
• Θέματα: Education.; Language and education.; Assessment.; Language Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

This book presents an in‐depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students’ spoken proficiency, called interact. The bo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Mediating assessment innovation: Why stakeholder perspectives matter
• Chapter 2:Assessing spoken proficiency: What are the issues?
• Chapter 3:Introducing a new assessment of spoken proficiency: Interact
• Chapter 4: Investigating stakeholder perspectives on Interact
• Chapter 5: The advantages and disadvantages of Interact
• Chapter 6:The disadvantages of Interact and suggested improvements
• Chapter 7: Interact and higher proficiency students: Addressing the challenges
• Chapter 8: Interact and higher proficiency students: Concluding perspectives
• Chapter 9: Coming to terms with assessment innovation: Conclusions and recommendations.