International Experiences in Language Testing and Assessment

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 28
• This volume, written by distinguished scholars, researchers and practitioners in the field of language testing and assessment, includes selected paper... Lees meer

Assessing Interactional Competence

David Wei Dai

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 48
• With the growing recognition of the need to broaden the definition of Interactional Competence (IC) for communication and learning, this monograph off... Lees meer

Assessing Intercultural Language Learning

Veronika Timpe

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 31
• Although Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) has become a key objective in foreign language (FL) education, curricula offer little in how lan... Lees meer

Accent and Listening Assessment; A Validation Study of the Use of Speakers with L2 Accents on an Academic English Listening Test

Luke Harding

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 21
• Given the linguistically diverse nature of academic institutions in English-speaking contexts, a strong rationale exists for the incorporation of L2 a... Lees meer

Predicting Item Difficulty in a Reading Test; A Construct Identification Study of the Austrian 2009 Baseline English Reading Test

Klaus Siller

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 42
• In this book, the author investigates a central issue in language testing research: What are the key features that contribute to item difficulty in a ... Lees meer

Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance

Vivien Berry

• Paperback | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 7
• The book examines how individual differences in candidates' levels of extraversion interact with facets which have been shown to affect scores obtaine... Lees meer

Testen bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen und akademischer Sprachkompetenzen

• Hardcover | Duits | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 43
• Der Sammelband präsentiert aktuelle Forschungen zum Testen bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen und akademischer Sprachkompetenzen in folgenden Diszipline... Lees meer

Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott: Advanced Methods in Language Testing

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 47
• This Festschrift has been compiled to honour Günther Sigott for his notable contributions to academia in general and to the field of language testing ... Lees meer

Testing Lexicogrammar

Theresa Weiler

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 45
• This book explores the construct of language in use , specifically as operationalised through different item types in the Austrian Matura . The findin... Lees meer

Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building

Gábor Szabó

• Paperback | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 10
• Item Response Theory, though it has become a widely recognized tool in language testing research, is still not used frequently in practical language a... Lees meer

Der C-Test

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 34
• Dieser Band illustriert den aktuellen Stand der C-Test-Forschung. C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstr... Lees meer

Interaction in a Paired Speaking Test

Lynette Anne May

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 24
• Paired speaking tests are increasingly used in both low- and high-stakes second language assessment contexts. Until recently, very little was known ab... Lees meer

Interaction in Paired Oral Proficiency Assessment in Spanish

Ana Maria Ducasse

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 20
• Defining the construct of interaction for paired assessment purposes has been difficult, despite the evolution of our view of language to include the ... Lees meer

The Co-construction of Conversation in Group Oral Tests

Fumyo Nakatsuhara

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 30
• This book explores how language test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels co-construct interaction in group oral tests. It compar... Lees meer

Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language

Florian Meyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 32
• How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? 30 years of research have been synthes... Lees meer

Die Validitaet Der Skalen Des Gemeinsamen Europaeischen Referenzrahmens Fuer Sprachen

Katrin Wisniewski

• Hardcover | Duits | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 33
• Die Skalen des Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen (GeRS) kommen zunehmend etwa bei der Formulierung von Bildungsstandards oder der ... Lees meer

Virtual Standard Setting

Charalambos Kollias

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 46
• The study investigated whether cut scores could be set in two synchronous e-communication media.The findings revealed that virtual cut scores set in b... Lees meer

Towards Identifying the C-Test Construct

Günther Sigott

• Paperback | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 1
• What do C-Tests really measure? This book describes the history and the theoretical background of C-Tests and gives a survey of research into C-Test v... Lees meer

Testing ESL Pragmatics

Carsten Röver

• Paperback | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 2
• Although second language learners' pragmatic competence (their ability to use language in context) is an essential part of their general communicative... Lees meer

Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of EFL Learners

Jianda Liu

• Paperback | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 5
• Pragmatic competence is an integral and indispensable component of overall language competence. Omitting the pragmatic dimension from language assessm... Lees meer

Validating Language Proficiency Assessments in Second Language Acquisition Research

Anastasia Drackert

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 38
• Motivated by the need for practical suggestions for raising proficiency assessment standards in Second Language Acquisition research, this book introd... Lees meer

Validating Analytic Rating Scales

Armin Berger

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 37
• This book presents a unique scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two rating scales for assessing academic speaking. It reports... Lees meer

Strategic Competence and EFL Reading Test Performance

Aek Phakiti

• Paperback | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 9
• Strategic competence (a higher-order executive ability that executes strategies for language use) has long been theorized as a significant non-linguis... Lees meer

Modelling Performance in Tests of Spoken Language

Barry O´sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Language Testing and Evaluation | nr. 12
• When we use a language we are always aware of our audience. This awareness is reflected, for example, in changes to the way we speak to the same perso... Lees meer