Overview
- Addresses a major challenge for English-medium higher education
- Offers a broad international perspective on the issues
- Written by leading experts in academic language assessment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: English Language Education (ELED, volume 6)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction
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Implementing and Monitoring Undergraduate Assessments
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Addressing the Needs of Doctoral Students
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Conclusion
Keywords
- Academic language ability
- Construct refinement in tests of academic literacy
- English as a medium of instruction
- English proficiency development
- English-as-a-lingua-franca
- First-year engineering
- Language test-taker feedback
- Language testing tertiary education
- Post-admission assessments
- Post-admission diagnostic assessment in a Canadian university
- Post-admission language assessment in Hong Kong
- Post-entry language assessment
- Post-entry screening
- TALPS
- Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students
- University entry level of English
- Validation of language tests
- Vocabulary recognition skill
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-admission Language Assessment of University Students
Editors: John Read
Series Title: English Language Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39192-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39190-8Published: 18 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81839-9Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39192-2Published: 10 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2213-6967
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6975
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 243
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Higher Education