摘要:
Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application. Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research responses. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader's understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. Language Testing and Assessment: introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment explores the testing of linguistic competence of children, students, asylum seekers and many others in context of the uses to which such research can be put presents influential and seminal readings in testing and assessment by names such as Michael Canale and Merrill Swain, Michael Kane, Alan Davies, Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl, and Pamela Moss.
Section A: Introduction
A1. Introducing Validity
A2. Classroom Assessment
A3. Constructs and Models
A4. Test Specifications and Designs
A5. Writing Items and Tasks
A6. Prototypes, Prototyping and Field Tests
A7. Scoring Language Tests and Assessments
A8. Administration and Training
A9. Fairness, Ethics and Standards
A10. Arguments and Evidence in Test Validation and Use
Section B: Expansion
B1. Construct Validity
B2. Pedagogic Assessment
B3. Investigating Communicative Competence
B4. Optimal Specification Design
B5. Washback
B6. Researching Prototype Tasks
B7. Scoring Performance Tests
B8. Interlocutor Training and Behaviour
B9. Ethics and Professionalism
B10. Validity as Argument
Section C: Exploration
C1. Validity - An Exploration
C2. Assessment in School Systems
C3. What do Items Really Test?
C4. Evolution in Action
C5. To See a Test in a Grain of Sand
C6. Analyzing Items and Tasks
C7. Designing an Alternative Matrix
C8. Administration and Alignment
C9. In a Time Far Far Away
C10. To Boldly Go
Glossary
References
Index