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Assessing English on the Global Stage
Cyril J. Weir,Barry O'Sullivan
Author : Cyril J. Weir,Barry O'Sullivan
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : English language
ISBN : 1781794928
Assessing English on the Global Stage by Cyril J. Weir,Barry O'Sullivan Pdf
This book tells the story of the British Council's seventy-five year involvement in the field of English language testing. The first section of the book explores the role of the British Council in spreading British influence around the world through the export of British English language examinations and British expertise in language testing. Founded in 1934, the organisation formally entered the world of English language testing with the signing of an agreement with the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate (UCLES) in 1941. This agreement, which was to last until 1993, saw the British Council provide substantial English as a Foreign Language (EFL) expertise and technical and financial assistance to help UCLES develop their suite of English language tests. Perhaps the high points of this phase were the British Council inspired Cambridge Diploma of English Studies introduced in the 1940s and the central role played by the British Council in the conceptualisation and development of the highly innovative English Language Testing Service (ELTS) in the 1970s, the precursor to the present day International English Language Testing System (IELTS). British Council support for the development of indigenous national English language tests around the world over the last thirty years further enhanced the promotion of English and the creation of soft power for Britain. In the early 1990s the focus of the British Council changed from test development to delivery of British examinations through its global network. However, by the early years of the 21st century, the organisation was actively considering a return to test development, a strategy that was realised with the founding of the Assessment Research Group in early 2012. This was followed later that year by the introduction of the Aptis English language testing service; the first major test developed in-house for over thirty years. As well as setting the stage for the re-emergence of professional expertise in language testing within the organisation, these initiatives have resulted in a growing strategic influence for the organisation on assessment in English language education. This influence derives from a commitment to test localisation, the development and provision of flexible, accessible and affordable tests and an efficient delivery, marking and reporting system underpinned by an innovative socio-cognitive approach to language testing. This final period can be seen as a clear return by the British Council to using language testing as a tool for enhancing soft power for Britain: a return to the original raison d'etre of the organisation.
Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions
Xiaoming Xi,John M. Norris
Author : Xiaoming Xi,John M. Norris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351142380
Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions by Xiaoming Xi,John M. Norris Pdf
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.
Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives
Marianne Nikolov
Author : Marianne Nikolov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319224220
Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives by Marianne Nikolov Pdf
This volume documents international, national, and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners, across a range of educational contexts. It covers three main areas: age-appropriate ‘can do statements’ and task types for teaching and testing learners between the ages of 6 to 13; innovative approaches to self-assessment, diagnostic testing, self- perception, and computer-based testing; and findings on how young learners perform on vocabulary, listening, speaking, pronunciation, and reading comprehension tests in European and Asian contexts. Early language learning has become a major trend in English language education around the globe. As a result of the spread of teaching English to a growing number of young children, assessment of and for learning have emerged as key issues. In line with this development, there is a clear and emerging need to make early language programs accountable and to assess both the progress children make over time and to quantify their achievement at various stages of development. This volume informs stakeholders about the realistic goals of early language learning, their efficiency, and how much progress children make over time.
L2 Writing Assessment
Anthony Green
Author : Anthony Green
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031150111
L2 Writing Assessment by Anthony Green Pdf
This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it). It takes a historical view of how assessment developers have made those choices, how contemporary practices emerged, and of alternative techniques that have risen and fallen over time. The three sections each tackle one of these choices. The first considers the social functions that define L2 writing and assessment; the second relates how assessment tasks have adapted to changing conceptions of languages, writing, and assessment; and the third explores how scoring systems have evolved. Each section brings the reader up to date with current issues confronting writing assessment (both in large-scale testing and in language classrooms) before considering the new opportunities and challenges of the digital age. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in language assessment, language education, and applied linguistics.
English Language Proficiency Testing in Asia
Lily I-Wen Su,Cyril J. Weir,Jessica R. W. Wu
Author : Lily I-Wen Su,Cyril J. Weir,Jessica R. W. Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351254007
English Language Proficiency Testing in Asia by Lily I-Wen Su,Cyril J. Weir,Jessica R. W. Wu Pdf
As the demand for English language education grows in Asia, there has been a parallel growth in the development and implementation of standardized tests at the local level. Offering much-needed context on locally produced tests in Asia, contributors examine emerging models for English language assessment and the impact these large-scale tests have on the teaching and learning of English. Chapters address the following well-known and developing high-stakes tests in different regions across Asia: the GEPT, the TEPS, the VSTEP, the CET, the EIKEN and TEAP, and the ELPA. Brought together by world-renowned testing assessment scholar Cyril Weir and the Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC), one of Asia’s leading testing institutions based in Taiwan, this volume is a useful reference for evaluating, developing, and validating local tests of English and their societal impact. Comprehensive and research-based, chapters cover historic backgrounds, sociocultural contexts, test quality, international standing, and future considerations. Ideal for graduate students, researchers, and scholars in language assessment, TESOL/TEFL, and applied linguistics, this book will also be of interest to language teaching professionals, language test developers, and graduate students in Asian studies and international education, intercultural communication, and intercultural studies.
Global Perspectives on Language Assessment
Spiros Papageorgiou,Kathleen M. Bailey
Author : Spiros Papageorgiou,Kathleen M. Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429795503
Global Perspectives on Language Assessment by Spiros Papageorgiou,Kathleen M. Bailey Pdf
The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives. Covering a broad range of key topics—including scoring processes, test development, and student and teacher perspectives—contributors offer a comprehensive overview of the landscape of language assessment and discuss the consequences and impact for learners, teachers, learning programs, and society. Focusing on the assessment of language proficiency, this volume provides an original compendium of cutting-edge research that will benefit TESOL and TEFL students, language assessment scholars, and language teachers.
Teacher Well-Being in English Language Teaching
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera,Gilda Martínez-Alba,Ethan Trinh
Author : Luis Javier Pentón Herrera,Gilda Martínez-Alba,Ethan Trinh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000783957
Teacher Well-Being in English Language Teaching by Luis Javier Pentón Herrera,Gilda Martínez-Alba,Ethan Trinh Pdf
This edited volume brings the important topic of teacher well-being to the fore, presenting a range of high quality and cutting-edge contributions that illuminate, advance and educate readers on the challenges and criticality of achieving teacher well-being in English language teaching (ELT). Taking Sarah Mercer’s call for action to make teacher well-being a priority in the ELT field, and adopting an ecological perspective reflective of the stance that teacher well-being is a societal duty and not a personal responsibility, the contributors present theoretically and methodologically innovative research studies from all around the world. The term ‘teacher’ is used to refer to those who deliver English instruction in a variety of formal and informal educational settings and at different levels including K-12 schools, adult education, higher education, teacher education programs, and in community organizations. Chapters offer clear implications for research and practice, and explore effective practices and interventions that can contribute to the improvement of teacher well-being overall. Addressing a profession which is not only characterized as being filled with high levels of stress, but delving into specific challenges around ELT in particular, the authors crucially speak to themes around the additional emotional investment and labor which come with being an English language teacher. As such, it will appeal to academics and researchers in the field of English language teaching, including scholar-practitioners, and teacher educators.
Making World English
Michael G. Malouf
Author : Michael G. Malouf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350243866
Making World English by Michael G. Malouf Pdf
Uncovering the role of literature, late imperialism, and the rise of new models of internationalism as integral to the invention of Global English, this book focuses on three key figures from the “Vocabulary Control Movement” - C.K. Ogden, Harold Palmer, and Michael West - who competed for market share for their respective language teaching systems - Basic English, the Palmer Method, and the New Method - through battles over word lists and teaching methods in the 1920s and 30s. Drawing on archives from the Carnegie Corporation and considering language teaching in eight global sites, this book analyzes how a series of conferences in New York and London resolved their conflicts and produced a consolidated, international standard form of English. As a postcolonial approach to the development of the field of English Language Teaching, it reveals how these language debates were proxy battles over an idealized global subject: an urban, secular, consumer moving seamlessly between the tribal and global, speaking both mother tongues and an international lingua franca, Global English. Featuring analysis of the primary texts of each of the three key figures in this book as well as close readings of their readers, which featured adaptations of well-known literary texts from writers like Poe, Dickens, Wordsworth, Milton and Wells, it recovers a neglected history of English as it was redefined as an international language through anti-colonial resistance in the peripheries and transatlantic power struggles in the metropole during the interwar period.
Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages
Nicola McLelland
Author : Nicola McLelland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317230236
Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages by Nicola McLelland Pdf
Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages provides a comprehensive history of language teaching and learning in the UK from its earliest beginnings to the year 2000. McLelland offers the first history of the social context of foreign language education in Britain, as well as an overview of changing approaches, methods and techniques in language teaching and learning. The important impact of classroom-external factors on developments in language teaching and learning is also taken into account, particularly regarding the policies and public examination requirements of the 20th century. Beginning with a chronological overview of language teaching and learning in Britain, McLelland explores which languages were learned when, why and by whom, before examining the social history of language teaching and learning in greater detail, addressing topics including the status that language learning and teaching have held in society. McLelland also provides a history of how languages have been taught, contrasting historical developments with current orthodoxies of language teaching. Experiences outside school are discussed with reference to examples from adult education, teach-yourself courses and military language learning. Providing an accessible, authoritative history of language education in Britain, Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages will appeal to academics and postgraduate students engaged in the history of education and language learning across the world. The book will also be of interest to teacher educators, trainee and practising teachers, policymakers and curriculum developers.
English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times
Liz England,Lía D. Kamhi-Stein,Georgios Kormpas
Author : Liz England,Lía D. Kamhi-Stein,Georgios Kormpas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000853544
English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times by Liz England,Lía D. Kamhi-Stein,Georgios Kormpas Pdf
This volume addresses challenges that the field of English language teacher education has faced in the past several years. The global pandemic has caused extreme stress and has also served as a catalyst for new ways of teaching, learning, and leading. Educators have relied on their creativity and resiliency to identify new and innovative teaching practices and insights that inform the profession going forward. Contributors describe how teacher educators have responded to the specific needs and difficulties of educating teachers and teaching second language learners in challenging circ*mstances around the world and how these innovations can transform education going forward into the future. Paving the way for a revitalized profession, this book is essential reading for the current and future generations of TESOL scholars, graduate students, and professors.
Integration of Engineering Education and the Humanities: Global Intercultural Perspectives
Zhanna Anikina
Author : Zhanna Anikina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031114359
Integration of Engineering Education and the Humanities: Global Intercultural Perspectives by Zhanna Anikina Pdf
This book tackles the problems of engineering students and teachers while developing language skills through language education, transforming students’ mind-set through cultural studies, developing students’ intellectual abilities and personal qualities, and the use of information technologies in order to enhance the educational process. The International Conference Integration of Engineering Education and the Humanities: Global Intercultural Perspectives will take place 20–22 April 2022. It will be organized by Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in collaboration with Research Centre Kairos (Tomsk, Russia). The event aims to raise discussions around a variety of aspects related to the integration of the humanities into engineering education. As such, the book will be of interest to the teachers, researchers and institutional leaders looking for the latest insights, experiences and research results on the topic.
The Politics of English Second Language Writing Assessment in Global Contexts
Todd Ruecker,Deborah Crusan
Author : Todd Ruecker,Deborah Crusan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351603027
The Politics of English Second Language Writing Assessment in Global Contexts by Todd Ruecker,Deborah Crusan Pdf
Reflecting the internationalization of the field of second language writing, this book focuses on political aspects and pedagogical issues of writing instruction and testing in a global context. High-stakes assessment impacts the lives of second language (L2) writers and their teachers around the world, be it the College English Test in China, Common Core-aligned assessments in the U.S., English proficiency tests in Poland, or the material conditions (such as access to technology, training, and other resources) affecting a classroom. With contributions from authors working in ten different countries in a variety of institutional contexts, the chapters examine the uses and abuses of various writing-related assessments, and the policies that determine their form and use. Representing a diverse range of contexts, methods, and disciplines, the authors jointly call for more equitable testing systems that consider the socioeconomic, psychometric, affective, institutional, and needs of all students who strive to gain access to education and employment opportunities related to English language proficiency.
The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
Dominic Wyse,Louise Hayward,Jessica Pandya
Author : Dominic Wyse,Louise Hayward,Jessica Pandya
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1798 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473952720
The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment by Dominic Wyse,Louise Hayward,Jessica Pandya Pdf
The research and debates surrounding curriculum, pedagogy and assessment are ever-growing and are of constant importance around the globe. With two volumes - containing chapters from highly respected researchers, whose work has been critical to understanding and building expertise in the field – The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment focuses on examining how curriculum is treated and developed, and its impact on pedagogy and assessment worldwide. The Handbook is organised into five thematic sections, considering: · The epistemology and methodology of curriculum · Curriculum and pedagogy · Curriculum subjects · Areas of the curriculum · Assessment and the curriculum · The curriculum and educational policy The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment’s breadth and rigour will make it essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students around the world.
Djatmika Djatmika,Riyadi Santosa,Agus Hari Wibowo,Dyah Ayu Nila Khrisna,Bahtiar Mohamad
Author : Djatmika Djatmika,Riyadi Santosa,Agus Hari Wibowo,Dyah Ayu Nila Khrisna,Bahtiar Mohamad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9782384761623
Proceedings of the International Seminar SEMANTIKS & PRASASTI 2023 Theme: Language in the Workplace (PRASASTI 2023) by Djatmika Djatmika,Riyadi Santosa,Agus Hari Wibowo,Dyah Ayu Nila Khrisna,Bahtiar Mohamad Pdf
This is an open access book. Language in the workplace has been increasingly interesting object of language study. The gathering of language speakers with various social and cultural backgrounds makes the workplace a rich place with linguistic data for research. Varieties of spoken or written language, interaction between co-workers, miscommunication, meaning coming up in the interaction, the new technical terms related to certain professions, and language for virtual work are some many phenomena of language in the workplace that can become the object of linguistic research.
A Guide to Global Language Assessment
Mellissa Bortz
Author : Mellissa Bortz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781040137802
A Guide to Global Language Assessment by Mellissa Bortz Pdf
For decades, the speech-language therapy profession has expressed the need for the development of language assessment materials in languages other than English for children and adults. A Guide to Global Language Assessment: A Lifespan Approach aims to meet this need by providing comprehensive information about how to assess the language of bi- and multilingual and culturally diverse clients across the world. Featuring the viewpoints of contributors from around the world, A Guide to Global Language Assessment also boasts a complete database of available global language assessments. What’s included in A Guide to Global Language Assessment: Case studies, assessment frameworks, and resources for conducting global language assessments for culturally and linguistically diverse populations An array of language assessment methods across a continuum such as ethnographic and dynamic assessments, narratives, and standardized language assessment Methods for developing local norms A Guide to Global Language Assessment: A Lifespan Approach is an essential tool for empowering current and future speech-language therapists, professors, and researchers to address global language assessment across the lifespan.
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