Testing the untestable in foreign language education
By: edited by Amos Paran and Lies Sercu
Series: New perspectives on language and education -- 17
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9781847692665; 9781847692658; 9781847692672
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. More than language: the multiple faces of testing and assessment in language learning and teaching / Amos Paran; title: PART I. INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE: 2. Assessing Intercultural Competence: More Questions than Answers / Lies Sercu; title: 3. Interculturally Savvy or Not? Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence in the Context of Learning for Business / Kaisu Korhonen; title: 4. Eliciting The Intercultural in Foreign Language Education at School / Anthony J. Liddicoat and Angela Scarino; title: PART II. AUTONOMY: 5. Measuring Autonomy: Should We Put Our Ability to the Test? / Phil Benson; title: 6. Assessment of Autonomy or Assessment for Autonomy? Evaluating Learner Autonomy for Formative Purposes / Terry Lamb; title: 7. Learners Reflecting on Learning: Evaluation versus Testing in Autonomous Language learning / Leni Dam and Lienhard Legenhausen; title: PART III. LITERATURE: 8. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Dilemmas of Testing Language and Literature / Amos Paran; title: 9. Crossing The Bridge from Appreciative Reader to Reflective Writer: The Assessment of Creative Process / Jane Spiro; title: 10. The Taming of the Immeasurable: An Empirical Assessment of Language Awareness / Hui-wei Lin; title: PART IV. LANGUAGE AND CONTENT: 11. Assessing Language and Content: A Functional Perspective / Bernard Mohan, Constant Leung and Tammy Slater; title: 12. Teachers and Texts: Judging What ELLs Know From What They Say / Marylin Low; title: 13. Towards Systematic and Sustained Formative Assessment of Causal Explanations in Oral Interactions / Tammy Slater and Bernard Mohan.