27.1255, Books: Assessing Foreign Language Student's Spoken Proficiency: East

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:12:04
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: Assessing Foreign Language Student's Spoken Proficiency: East

 


Title: Assessing Foreign Language Student's Spoken Proficiency 
Subtitle: Stakeholder Perspectives on Assessment Innovation 
Series Title: Educational Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Springer
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Book URL: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811003011 


Author: Martin East

Hardback: ISBN:  9789811003011 Pages: 246 Price: Europe EURO 99.99


Abstract:

This book presents an in‐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’ 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‐year research project. It
presents an account of these stakeholders’ 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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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