Another Generation of Fundamental Considerations in Language Assessment

A Festschrift in Honor of Lyle F. Bachman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This edited book is a collection of papers, written by language assessment professionals to reflect the guidance of Professor Lyle F. Bachman, one of the leading second language assessment experts in the field for decades. It has three sub-themes: assessment of evolving language ability constructs, validity and validation of language assessments, and understanding internal structures of language assessments. It provides theoretical guidelines for practical language assessment challenges. Chapters are written by language assessment researchers who graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where Professor Bachman trained them including the book editors.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-24
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811589515

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Gary J. Ockey, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology, investigates second language assessments, with a focus on the use of technology and quantitative methods to better measure oral communication. He has served as the Editor of the TOEFL Research Report Series, and is currently an Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly. He has published in numerous journals, including Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Journal, Language Learning, Language Testing, and Language Assessment Quarterly. He is a co-author of the book: Assessing L2 listening: Moving toward authenticity (2018, John Benjamins). Brent A. Green is an Associate Professor of English Language Teaching and Learning at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. His professional and research interest include language assessment and corpus-based language learning. He has published assessment articles and book chapters on language assessment reform, language assessment in program evaluation, and language assessment in content-based instruction, He has also published several articles on corpus-based approaches to language learning.