PUBL Measuring L2 Proficiency: perspectives from SLA

Wed Jul 2 16:26:32 UTC 2014

Chers collègues, 

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution de notre ouvrage
collectif :

MEASURING L2 PROFICIENCY: Perspectives from SLA
Edited by Pascale Leclercq, Amanda Edmonds and Heather Hilton

Multilingual Matters.

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Le volume est disponible sur le site de l’éditeur :
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Cordialement,

Pascale Leclercq, Amanda Edmonds et Heather Hilton.

PS: veuillez excuser les envois multiples.

Description
This volume brings together concrete ideas on identifying and measuring
second language (L2) proficiency from different branches of SLA. The
chapters introduce a range of tools for the evaluation of learners’ language
level with respect to both productive and receptive skills and provide a
variety of answers to the question of how to assess L2 proficiency in a
valid, reliable and practical manner.

Editor Information
Pascale Leclercq is a Lecturer in the English Studies Department of
Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France, where 
she teaches EFL, SLA and L2 pedagogy to undergraduate and postgraduate
students, and trains future language teachers.

Amanda Edmonds is a Lecturer in French as a Foreign Language at the
Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France. 
She is currently director of the Master’s program in French as a Foreign
Language, and her teaching includes courses on 
FFL, second language acquisition, and language pedagogy.

Heather Hilton is a Professor in the Language Department at the Université
de Lyon 2, France. She has extensive experience 
of language teaching and now researches language acquisition and foreign
language teaching methodology with a particular 
focus on young learners and learners with learning differences.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Pascale Leclercq and Amanda Edmonds: How to Assess L2 Proficiency? An
Overview of 
Proficiency Assessment Research
Part I: General Considerations for L2 Assessment
2. Heather Hilton: Oral Fluency and Spoken Proficiency: Considerations for
Research and 
Testing
3. John Osborne: Multiple Assessments of Oral Proficiency: Evidence from a
Collaborative 
Platform.
4. Marcus Callies, Maria Belén Díez-Bedmar and Ekaterina Zaytseva: Using
Learner Corpora 
for Testing and Assessing L2 Proficiency.
Part II Language Processing and L2 Proficiency 
5. Peter Prince: Listening Comprehension: Processing Demands and Assessment
Issues
6. Carrie A. Ankerstein: A Psycholinguistic Measurement of Second Language
Proficiency: 
The Coefficient of Variance
7.  Dominique  Bairstow,  Jean-Marc  Lavaur,  Jannika  Laxen  and  Xavier
Aparicio:  Evaluating  the  Workings  of  Bilingual 
Memory with a Translation Recognition Task
Part III Focused Assessment Instruments 
8. Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Kevin McManus, Lourdes Ortega and John Norris:
“Repeat as much as you can”: Elicited Imitation 
as a Measure of Oral Proficiency in L2 French
9. Kevin McManus, Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Rosamond Mitchell, Laurence Richard
and Patricia Romero de Mills: Exploring 
the Acquisition of the French Subjunctive: Local Syntactic Context or Oral
Proficiency?
10.  Naouel  Zoghlami:  Testing  L2  Listening  Proficiency:  Reviewing
Standardized  tests  within  a  Competence-Based 
Framework.
11. Libby M. Gertken, Mark Amengual and David Birdsong: Assessing Language
Dominance with the Bilingual Language 
Profile
Epilogue

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