Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. The volume includes a brief introduction followed by four main chapters focusing on critical developments in theories and practices for assessing reading, listening, writing, and speaking, of which the latter two also address the assessment of integrated skills such as reading-writing, listening-speaking, and reading-listening-speaking. Each chapter reviews new task types, scoring approaches, and scoring technologies and their implications in light of the increasing use of technology in academic communication and the growing use of English as a lingua franca worldwide. The volume concludes with recommendations about critical areas of research and development that will help move the field forward. Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is an ideal resource for researchers and graduate students in language testing and assessment worldwide.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:357 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment at ETS
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9780815350644

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Xiaoming Xi is Chief of Product, Assessment and Learning at VIPKID International, USA.John M. Norris is Senior Research Director of the Center for Language Education and Assessment Research at Educational Testing Service, USA.

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"Considering the increasingly complex geo- and socio-political context of language testing, there is no better time to revisit both theories and practices of testing English for Academic Purposes (EAP), especially for admission purposes. The volume moves us forward with renewed understandings of EAP." Eunice Eunhee Jang, University of Toronto, Canada."This volume makes a timely contribution to the language testing and assessment literature by building on both seminal work and important recent developments related to English language testing for higher education admission purposes. Each of the chapters is written by a team of leading thinkers and researchers and sets out the state-of-the-art knowledge in language assessment in each of the four skills and in combination the chapters set direction for the field for future generations of language assessments. This book will most certainly become required reading for researchers, test developers, graduate students, and interested admissions officers alike." Ute Knoch, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Innehållsförteckning

CONTENTSList of Figures List of Tables Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1Framing the Assessment of Academic English for Admissions DecisionsJohn M. Norris, John McE. Davis, and Xiaoming XiCHAPTER 2Assessing Academic Reading Mary Schedl, Tenaha O’Reilly, William Grabe, and Rob SchoonenCHAPTER 3Assessing Academic Listening Spiros Papageorgiou, Jonathan Schmidgall, Luke Harding, Susan Nissan, and Robert French CHAPTER 4Assessing Academic Writing Alister Cumming, Yeonsuk Cho, Jill Burstein, Philip Everson, and Robert KantorCHAPTER 5Assessing Academic Speaking Xiaoming Xi, John M. Norris, Gary J. Ockey, Glenn Fulcher, and James E. PurpuraCHAPTER 6Looking Ahead to the Next Generation of Academic English AssessmentsCarol A. ChapelleList of Contributors