Testing the untestable in language education /
Paran, Amos.
Sercu, Lies.
Bristol : Multilingual Matters,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
More than language: the additional faces of testing and assessment in language learning and teaching / Amos Paran -- International competence -- Assessing intercultural competence: more questions than answers / Lies Sercu -- Interculturally savvy or not? Developing and assessing intercultural competence in the context of learning for business / Kaisu Korhonen -- Eliciting the intercultural in foreign language education at school / Anthony J. Liddicoat and Angela Scarino -- Autonomy -- Measuring autonomy: should we put our ability to the test? / Phil Benson -- Assessment of autonomy or assessment for autonomy? Evaluating learner autonomy for formative purposes / Terry Lamb -- Learners reflecting on learning: evaluation versus testing in autonomous language learning / Leni Dam and Lienhard Legenhausen -- Literature -- Between Scylla and Charybdis: the dilemmas of testing language and literature / Amos Paran -- Crossing the bridge from appreciative reader to reflective writer: the assessment of creative process / Jane Spiro -- The taming of the immeasurable: an empirical assessment of language awareness / Hui-wei Lin -- Language and content -- Assessing language and content: a functional perspective / Bernard Mohan, Constant Leung and Tammy Slater -- Teachers and texts: judging what English language learners know from what they say / Marylin Low -- Towards systematic and sustained formative assessment of causal explanations in oral interactions / Tammy Slater and Bernard Mohan.
Language and languages
Intercultural communication
Multicultural education
Communicative competence