ABSTRACT

The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives. Covering a broad range of key topics—including scoring processes, test development, and student and teacher perspectives—contributors offer a comprehensive overview of the landscape of language assessment and discuss the consequences and impact for learners, teachers, learning programs, and society. Focusing on the assessment of language proficiency, this volume provides an original compendium of cutting-edge research that will benefit TESOL and TEFL students, language assessment scholars, and language teachers.

part 1|2 pages

Raters and Rating

chapter 1|15 pages

Analytic Rubric Format

How Category Position Affects Raters’ Mental Rubric

chapter 2|14 pages

Rater Training in a Speaking Assessment

Impact on More- and Less-Proficient Raters

chapter 4|16 pages

Assessing Second Language Writing

Raters’ Perspectives From A Sociocultural View

part 2|2 pages

Test Development and Validation

chapter 11|17 pages

Cyberpragmatics

Assessing Interlanguage Pragmatics Through Interactive Email Communication