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Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency

Stakeholder Perspectives on Assessment Innovation

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Authors:
  1. Martin East

    1. Social Work, Private Bag 92601, Univ of Auckland, Faculty of Educ &, Auckland, New Zealand

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  • An in-depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning
  • A unique study that crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research and presents an alternative approach that seeks the views of stakeholders
  • Stakeholder perspectives provide unique insight into how mandated assessment reforms are received, interpreted and put into practice by those working in the real world of local classrooms?

Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 26)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Mediating Assessment Innovation: Why Stakeholder Perspectives Matter

    • Martin East
    Pages 1-24

  3. Assessing Spoken Proficiency: What Are the Issues?

    • Martin East
    Pages 25-50

  4. Introducing a New Assessment of Spoken Proficiency: Interact

    • Martin East
    Pages 51-75

  5. Investigating Stakeholder Perspectives on Interact

    • Martin East
    Pages 77-100

  6. The Advantages of Interact

    • Martin East
    Pages 101-124

  7. The Disadvantages of Interact and Suggested Improvements

    • Martin East
    Pages 125-145

  8. Interact and Higher Proficiency Students: Addressing the Challenges

    • Martin East
    Pages 147-166

  9. Interact and Higher Proficiency Students: Concluding Perspectives

    • Martin East
    Pages 167-187

  10. Coming to Terms with Assessment Innovation: Conclusions and Recommendations

    • Martin East
    Pages 189-212

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 213-227
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About this book

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 book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the centre of interest.  It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups - teachers and students in schools - based on data collected from a substantial two‐year research project. It presents an account of these stakeholders’ perceptions of the validity and usefulness of the new assessment in comparison with the more traditional test that it has replaced.
Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency makes an outstanding and original contribution to the field of second and foreign language teaching, providing a theory and research-based account of the development of a learner-centred approach to oral proficiency assessment.  It is an important resource for teachers and teacher educators as well as assessment and curriculum specialists worldwide.  It deserves to be widely read.

Reviews

“This book makes a valuable contribution to the extent to which formative and summative assessment can be conflated for language teaching. It should be of interest to language education researchers, students, teachers and NZ decision makers who must decide the direction of interact.” (R. M. Genet, L. N. Conner and V. M. O’Toole, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 53, 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Social Work, Private Bag 92601, Univ of Auckland, Faculty of Educ &, Auckland, New Zealand

    Martin East

About the author

Martin East is currently Associate Dean (Research) and a language teacher educator in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. His principal research interests are in ways of enhancing the effectiveness of language teaching, learning and assessment, and he publishes widely in these areas.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency

  • Book Subtitle: Stakeholder Perspectives on Assessment Innovation

  • Authors: Martin East

  • Series Title: Educational Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0303-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0301-1Published: 10 February 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9128-5Published: 31 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0303-5Published: 02 February 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1572-0292

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 227

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Education, Learning & Instruction, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

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