Assessment for Language Teaching

This Element reviews and updates the foundational concepts and practices for assessment in English Language Teaching.

Aek Phakiti (Author), Constant Leung (Author)

9781009468152, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 May 2024

112 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.1 cm, 0.31 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]