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<p>Title: <span lang="EN" style="COLOR: #333333">Assessing Foreign Language Students$B!G(B Spoken Proficiency</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Author: Martin East</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN: 978-981-10-0301-1<br>
Hardback Price: $129.00</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">*Softcover Price: $24.99</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">URL: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811003011</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">About the book: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="COLOR: #333333">This book presents an in</span><span lang="EN" style="COLOR: #333333">$B!>(B</span><span lang="EN" style="COLOR: #333333">depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The
context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students$B!G(B spoken proficiency, called interact. The book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries
associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the centre of interest. It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups
- teachers and students in schools - based on data collected from a substantial two</span><span lang="EN" style="COLOR: #333333">$B!>(B</span><span lang="EN" style="COLOR: #333333">year research project. It presents an account of these stakeholders$B!G(B perceptions
of the validity and usefulness of the new assessment in comparison with the more traditional test that it has replaced. Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency makes an outstanding and original contribution to the field of second and foreign
language teaching, providing a theory and research-based account of the development of a learner-centred approach to oral proficiency assessment. It is an important resource for teachers and teacher educators as well as assessment and curriculum specialists
worldwide. It deserves to be widely read.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"">Table of contents:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">-Preface.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Acknowledgments.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 1: Mediating assessment innovation: Why stakeholder perspectives matter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 2:Assessing spoken proficiency: What are the issues? .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 3:Introducing a new assessment of spoken proficiency:<i>Interact</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 4: Investigating stakeholder perspectives on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="COLOR: black">Interact</span></i><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 5: The advantages and disadvantages of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="COLOR: black">Interact</span></i><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 6:The disadvantages of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="COLOR: black">Interact<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">and
suggested improvements.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 7:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="COLOR: black">Interact</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"> </span></span><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">and
higher proficiency students: Addressing the challenges.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 8:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="COLOR: black">Interact</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"> </span></span><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">and
higher proficiency students: Concluding perspectives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">- Chapter 9: Coming to terms with assessment innovation: Conclusions and recommendations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: "><span style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> *Springer offers softcover books for the low price of just $24.99. This service is available directly through your university library. To purchase your softcover edition, just click on the MyCopy link when you search online for the eBook
at your institution$B!G(Bs library. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Discounted prices are also available when a volume form the Educational Linguistics series is used as a textbook for a course. Contact your Springer representative for further details.
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