Overview
- Investigates real-life problems and challenges in language testing in different regions of the world
- Discusses consequences of not following language testing principles
- Combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing to propose solutions to issues in language testing
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Learning from Language Test Interpretation Problems, Negative Effects, or Misuse
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Learning from Tests of World Languages
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Learning from Program-Level Language Tests
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About this book
This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world. It investigates problematic practices in language testing which are relevant to language test users such as language program directors, testing centers, and language teachers, as well as teachers-in-training in Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics programs. These issues involve aspects of language testing such as test development, test administration, scoring, and interpretation/use of test results.
Chapters in this volume discuss insights about language testing policy, testing world languages, developing program-level language tests and tests of specific language skills, and language assessment literacy. In addition, this book identifies two needs in language testing for further examination: the need for collaboration between language test developers, language test users, and language users, and the need to base language tests on real-world language use.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christine Coombe has a Ph.D. in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of General Studies at Dubai Men’s College. She is the former Testing and Measurements Supervisor at UAE University and Assessment Coordinator of Zayed University. Christine has published numerous books and articles on language testing/assessment, research methods, leadership, teacher effectiveness and task-based teaching and learning.
James Dean Brown is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He has spoken and taught in many places (from Australia to Venezuela). He has published numerous articles and books on language testing, curriculum design, research methods, and connected speech.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenges in Language Testing Around the World
Book Subtitle: Insights for language test users
Editors: Betty Lanteigne, Christine Coombe, James Dean Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4232-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4231-6Published: 18 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4234-7Published: 19 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4232-3Published: 17 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 553
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Language Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation