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Language Testing and Assessment

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Elana Shohamy

    1. School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  2. Iair G. Or

    1. School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  3. Stephen May

    1. Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  • Revises and updates a landmark reference work, now in 3rd edition
  • Collates knowledge across disciplines, with truly global coverage of language and education
  • Includes a special emphasis on language and education in bi/multilingual contexts
  • Provides topical reviews of literature and comprehensive, expert answers to common questions
  • Stimulates look-up and further learning with valuable indexes and handy reference lists
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Language and Education (ELE)

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Table of contents (29 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. Assessing Language Domains

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Assessing Students’ Content Knowledge and Language Proficiency

      • Lorena Llosa
      Pages 3-14

    3. Culture and Language Assessment

      • Angela Scarino
      Pages 15-31

    4. Assessing Meaning

      • James Enos Purpura
      Pages 33-61

    5. Language Assessment in the US Government

      • Rachel L. Brooks
      Pages 63-76

    6. Testing Aptitude for Second Language Learning

      • Megan Smith, Charles W. Stansfield
      Pages 77-90

    7. Assessing Multilingual Competence

      • Alexis A. Lopez, Sultan Turkan, Danielle Guzman-Orth
      Pages 91-102

    8. Assessing English as a Lingua Franca

      • Jennifer Jenkins, Constant Leung
      Pages 103-117

  3. Methods of Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Task and Performance-Based Assessment

      • Gillian Wigglesworth, Kellie Frost
      Pages 121-133

    3. Using Portfolios for Assessment/Alternative Assessment

      • Janna Fox
      Pages 135-147

    4. Utilizing Technology in Language Assessment

      • Carol A. Chapelle, Erik Voss
      Pages 149-161

    5. Cognitive Aspects of Language Assessment

      • Eunice Eunhee Jang
      Pages 163-177

    6. Criteria for Evaluating Language Quality

      • Glenn Fulcher
      Pages 179-192

    7. Methods of Test Validation

      • Xiaoming Xi, Yasuyo Sawaki
      Pages 193-209

    8. Qualitative Methods of Validation

      • Anne Lazaraton
      Pages 211-224

    9. Training in Language Assessment

      • Margaret E. Malone
      Pages 225-239

  4. Assessment in Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Dynamic Assessment

      • Matthew E. Poehner, Kristin J. Davin, James P. Lantolf
      Pages 243-256
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About this book

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization. In the selection of topics and contributors, the Encyclopedia reflects the depth of disciplinary knowledge, breadth of interdisciplinary perspective, and diversity of socio-geographic experience in the language and education field. Throughout, there is an inclusion of contributions from non-English speaking and non-western parts of the world, providing truly global coverage. Furthermore, the authors have sought to integrate these voices fully into the whole, rather than as special cases or international perspectives in separate sections. The Encyclopedia is a necessary reference set for every university and college library in the world that serves a faculty or school of education, as well as being highly relevant to the fields of applied and socio-linguistics. The publication of this work charts the further deepening and broadening of the field of language and education since the publication of the first edition of the Encyclopedia in 1997 and the second edition in 2008.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Elana Shohamy, Iair G. Or

  • Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen May

About the editors

Prior to taking up his position at The University of Auckland, Professor Stephen May was Foundation Professor and Chair of Language and Literacy Education in the School of Education, University of Waikato (2001-2009). In the 1st semester of 2008, he was also a New Zealand Fulbright Senior Scholar, based at Arizona State University, Teachers College, Columbia University and City University New York, where he undertook a comparative ethnographic study of successful school-based bilingual education programs. In 2001, he was a visiting scholar at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Stephen began his professional career in the 1980s as a secondary teacher of English and ESL in New Zealand and has subsequently taught in universities in New Zealand, Britain, USA and Canada. From 1993-2001 he taught in the Sociology Department, University of Bristol, UK, where he remains affiliated as a Honorary Research Fellow.




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