A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners

By: Christine Coombe, Nancy Hubley, Keith S. Folse

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Paperback | 22 February 2007

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For many teachers of English language learners, the field of assessment is foreign territory. Assessment has its own culture, traditions, and terminology. This training guide is intended to help classroom teachers become more comfortable creating and using assessments. "A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners "provides helpful insights into the practice and terminology of assessment. The text focuses on providing the cornerstones of good assessments--usefulness, validity, reliability, practicality, washback, authenticity, transparency, and security--and techniques for testing. It devotes a chapter to the assessment of each of the four main skill areas (reading, writing, listening, and speaking), and also covers placement testing, such as using TOEFL(R) and MELAB, diagnostic testing, evaluation, and instructional decision-making with regard to testing.
Tips to improve students' test-taking strategies are offered, and each chapter ends with a helpful list of Ten Things to Remember, as well as informative case studies featuring two teachers and their assessment decisions. Incorporating its own principles, "A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners "opens with a short quiz for the reader called Are You Testwise? that quickly determines how each teacher will benefit from this indispensable guide.

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Non-Fiction Education Organisation & Management of Education Examinations & Assessment Teaching English (ELT)ELT Background & Reference Material ELT Teaching Theory & Methods

Are you testwise?
Introduction to issues in language assessment and terminology
The process of developing assessment	p. 1
Techniques for testing	p. 16
Assessing reading	p. 43
Assessing writing	p. 69
Assessing listening	p. 89
Assessing speaking	p. 111
Student test-taking strategies	p. 133
Administering assessment	p. 147
Using assessment	p. 158
Assessing ESL students' knowledge of content in K-12 classes	p. 172
Standardized ESL/EFL tests	p. 189
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