Assessment for Language Teaching
This Element reviews the key foundational concepts, beliefs, and practices underpinning approaches to assessment in English Language Teaching. Exploring major concepts and practices through educational, social, and ethical perspectives, it offers theoretically informed and close-to-practice descriptions and up-to-date explanations of the affordances and limitations of different assessment approaches related to language teaching. This Element presents a cohesive and pragmatic framework that allows teachers to efficiently implement tests and assessments in their contexts.
Product details
May 2024Paperback
9781108928779
112 pages
229 × 152 × 6 mm
0.175kg
Not yet published - available from February 2025
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Language assessment
- 3. Essential concepts in assessment
- 4. Types of language assessment
- 5. Essential theoretical and technical concepts
- 6. Summative assessment design – Types and processes
- 7. A way forward
- Appendix: Test specifications
- Glossary
- References.