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The Concise Companion to Language Assessment provides a state-of-the-art overview of the crucial areas of language assessment, teaching, and learning. Edited by one of the foremost scholars in the field, The Concise Companion combines newly commissioned articles on innovations in assessment with a selection of chapters from The Companion to Language Assessment, the landmark four-volume reference work first published in 2013. Presented in eight themes, The Concise Companion addresses a broad range of language assessment methods, issues, and contexts. Forty-five chapters cover assessment conceptualization, development, research, and policy, as well as recent changes in language assessment technology, learning-oriented assessment, teacher-based assessment, teacher assessment literacy, plurilingual assessment, assessment for immigration, and more. Exploring the past, present, and future possibilities of the dynamic field, The Concise Companion to Language Assessment: Contains dedicated chapters on listening, speaking, reading writing, vocabulary, pronunciation, intercultural competence, and other language skills Describes fundamental assessment design and scoring guidelines, as well as advanced concepts in scenario-based assessment and automated performance scoring Provides insights on different assessment environments, such as classrooms, universities, employment, immigration, and healthcare Covers various qualitative and quantitative research methods, including introspective methods, classical reliability, and structural equation modeling Discusses the impacts of colonialism and discrimination on the history of language assessment Explores the use of AI in writing evaluation, plagiarism and cheating detection, and other assessment contexts Sure to become a standard text for the next generation of applied linguistics students, The Concise Companion to Language Assessment is an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics, language assessment, TESOL, second language acquisition, and language policy.

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Author:   Antony John Kunnan (California State University, Los Angeles)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.043kg
ISBN:  

9781394179596

ISBN 10:   1394179596
Pages:   720
Publication Date:   23 September 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

About the editor About the contributors Introduction Acknowledgments Theme 1: Fundamental considerations 1 How to conceptualize and implement a language assessment, Lyle Bachman and Barbara Damböck 2 Learning-oriented language assessment, James Enos Purpura 3 Assessing Integrated skills, Alister Cumming 4 Dynamic assessment in the classroom, Matthew Poehner 5 Designing evaluations for validation of language assessments, Carol A. Chapelle, Erik Voss and Haeun Kim 6 Fairness and justice in language assessment, Antony John Kunnan 7 Statistics and software for test revisions, Yo In’nami and Rie Koizumi 8 Language assessment and artificial intelligence, Erik Voss Theme 2: Assessing Language skills and resources 9 Assessing listening, Elvis Wagner 10 Assessing speaking, Barry O’Sullivan 11 Assessing reading, William Grabe and Xiangying Jiang 12 Assessing writing, Cecilia Guanfang Zhao 13 Assessing the linguistic resources of meaningful communication, James Enos Purpura and Saerhim Oh 14 Assessing vocabulary, John Read 15 Assessing pronunciation, Talia Isaacs 16 Assessing intercultural competence and pragmatics, Carsten Roever Theme 3: Assessment development and evaluation 17 English as Lingua Franca, Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung 18 Scenario-based language assessment, Heidi Liu Banerjee 19 Adapting or developing source materials for listening and reading tests, Anthony Green 20 Automated writing assessment, Sara T. Cushing and Sha Liu Theme 4: Assessment contexts 21 Classroom-based assessment issues for language teacher education, Constant Leung 22 Assessing young language learners, Mikyung Kim Wolf 23 Monitoring progress in the classroom, Matthew E. Poehner and Rama Mathew 24 Diagnostic feedback in the 21st century technology-rich classroom, Eunhee Jang, Maryam Wagner, Liam Hannah, and Hyunah Kim 25 Evolution and future trends in tests of English for university admissions, Xiaoming Xi, Brent Bridgman and Cathy Wendler 26 Assessing health and other professionals, Lynda Taylor and John Pill 27 Acoustic and temporal analysis for assessing speaking, Okim Kang and Lucy Pickering Theme 5: Assessment for immigration and citizenship 28 Language testing for residence and citizenship in Europe: Justification, consequences and debate, Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen 29 Language assessment for immigration in Australia: Test policy-discourse entanglements and their ethical implications, Kellie Frost 30 U.S. immigration, citizenship, and the Naturalization Test, Antony John Kunnan Theme 6: Qualitative research methods 31 Introspective methods, Miyuki Sasaki and Yuhang Hu 32 Test-taking strategies, Yuyang Cai 33 Consequences, impact, washback, Liying Cheng 34 Language testing in the dock, Glenn Fulcher Theme 7: Quantitative research methods 35 Historical overview of Classical Theory - reliability, James Dean Brown 36 Classical Test Theory reliability, Yasuyo Sawaki 37 Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Score Interpretations in language assessments, Ikkyu Choi 38 Exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, Gary Ockey 39 Item Response Theory in language assessment, Shangchao Min and Lianzhen He 40 Many-facet Rasch Analysis for Evaluating Second Language Tests, Khaled Barkaoui 41 Psychometric considerations for computer-adaptive language testing, Steven W. Nydick, J.R. Lockwood, and Mancy Liao Theme 8: The role of technology 42 Computer-Assisted language testing: Focus on attributes, values and key research, Ruslan Suvorov, Yasin Karatay and Volker Hegelheimer 43 Computer-adaptive language testing: Focus on language tests, Ramsey Cardwell, Ben Naismith, and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville 44 Automated writing evaluation in high-stakes testing, Jill Burstein and Yigal Attali 45 Detecting plagiarism and cheating, Ardeshir Geranpayeh Index

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ANTONY JOHN KUNNAN is a specialist in language assessment research who has held academic positions in many universities including ones in Bangalore, Los Angeles, Yerevan, Taichung, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau. He has published widely on various topics including validation and fairness and policy and practice for immigration and citizenship. His most recent authored book is Evaluating Language Assessments published in 2018. He was the founding Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly, the founding President of the Asian Association for Language Assessment, and the past President of the International Language Testing Association. In 2024, he was awarded the Cambridge-ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award in language assessment.

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