Testing the untestable in language education. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Amos Paran and Lies Sercu.
• Other Names: Paran, Amos; Sercu, Lies
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 418.0076; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; Language teaching theory & methods; LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT); Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Evaluation; Intercultural communication -- Evaluation; Multicultural education -- Evaluation; Communicative competence -- Evaluation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847693983; 1847693989
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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