Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing

M. Rafael Salaberry is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities in the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures at Rice University (USA).Albert Weideman is Professor of Applied Language Studies and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (South Africa).Wei-Li Hsu is a Lecturer at the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, at Rice University (USA).

• List of contributorsPART I THE ETHICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION OF VALIDITYChapter 1: Contexts, constructs, and ethicsM. Rafael Salaberry and Albert WeidemanChapter 2: Validity and validation: an alternative perspectiveAlbert Weideman and Bart DeygersPART II AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT PROMPTED BY TEST ADEQUACY Chapter 3: The racializing power of language assessmentsCasey RichardsonChapter 4: "It’s not their English": narratives contesting the validity of a high-stakes testGordon Blaine West and Bala ThiruchelvamChapter 5: The ethical potential of L2 portfolio assessment: a critical perspective reviewMitsuko SuzukiPART III SOCIOINTERACTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ASSESSMENTChapter 6: Portfolio assessment: facilitating language learning in the wildElisa Räsänen and Piibi-Kai KivikChapter 7: The role of an inscribed object in a German classroom-based paired speaking assessment: does the topic card elicit the targeted speaking and interactional competencies?Katharina Kley Chapter 8: L1–L2 speaker interaction: affordances for assessing repair practicesKatharina Kley, Silvia Kunitz and Meng Yeh Chapter 9: Yardsticks for the future of language assessment: disclosing the meaning of measurementAlbert WeidemanIndex

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