From Assessment to Feedback
Applications in the Second/Foreign Language Classroom

Offers research-based practical advice and examples regarding important aspects of feedback in language classrooms.

Inez De Florio (Author)

9781009218931, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 January 2023

270 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.36 kg

From Assessment to Feedback addresses the need for practical and enriching literature on assessment and feedback in language teaching and learning. De Florio documents research-based forms of assessment and feedback in a succinct and accessible way, as the basis for classroom-oriented procedures in foreign/second language teaching. The multiple TEFL Examples lend themselves to direct use in language classrooms but can be easily adapted to other subject matters too. This book is divided into three parts – prerequisites, formative feedback, and summative feedback – promoting clear understanding. Each chapter ends with a 'Review, Reflect, Practice' section to summarise the chapter's content and facilitate the concrete application of these practice-oriented suggestions. Language teachers, other educational professionals, and teacher education students will benefit from this evidence-based research.

Introduction
Part I. Basic Concepts of Assessment and Feedback in the Foreign Language Classroom: 1. Feedback in everyday life and in foreign language education
2. Different forms of assessment and feedback in language teaching and learning
3. Evidence-based or at least science-oriented research: feedback models
4. The evolution of education and foreign language teaching as prerequisite of feedback
Part II. Assessment and Feedback in its Different Manifestations: 5. How to implement successful feedback in foreign language education
6. Involving the learners in important decisions
7. Feedback is no one-way street: teachers and learners
8. Peer feedback needs to be learned
9. Self-assessment: taking responsibility for one's actions
10. Collegial feedback strengthens language teaching and learning
11. What about electronic assessment and feedback?
12. Remote and hybrid teaching and learning: the new normal?
Part III. Summative Assessment in Combination with Formative Feedback: 13. From B. Bloom's taxonomy to the SOLO-Taxonomy
14. How to combine summative assessment with formative feedback
15. State requirements for assessment and feedback in foreign language teaching
16. What teachers can and should do about assessment and feedback
Glossary
References.

Subject Areas: Teacher training [JNMT], Educational psychology [JNC], Applied linguistics for ELT [EBAL]