Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing - Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice

This innovative, timely text introduces the theory and research of critical approaches to language assessment, foregrounding ethical and socially contextualized concerns in language testing and language test validation in today's globalized world.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors
PART I THE ETHICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION OF VALIDITY
Chapter 1: Contexts, constructs, and ethics
M. Rafael Salaberry and Albert Weideman
Chapter 2: Validity and validation: an alternative perspective
Albert Weideman and Bart Deygers
PART II AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT PROMPTED BY TEST ADEQUACY
Chapter 3: The racializing power of language assessments
Casey Richardson
Chapter 4: "It’s not their English": narratives contesting the validity of a high-stakes test
Gordon Blaine West and Bala Thiruchelvam
Chapter 5: The ethical potential of L2 portfolio assessment: a critical perspective review
Mitsuko Suzuki
PART III SOCIOINTERACTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ASSESSMENT
Chapter 6: Portfolio assessment: facilitating language learning in the wild
Elisa Räsänen and Piibi-Kai Kivik
Chapter 7: The role of an inscribed object in a German classroom-based paired speaking assessment: does the topic card elicit the targeted speaking and interactional competencies?
Katharina Kley
Chapter 8: L1–L2 speaker interaction: affordances for assessing repair practices
Katharina Kley, Silvia Kunitz and Meng Yeh
Chapter 9: Yardsticks for the future of language assessment: disclosing the meaning of measurement
Albert Weideman
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

M. Rafael Salaberry is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities in the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures at Rice University (USA).
Albert Weideman is Professor of Applied Language Studies and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (South Africa).
Wei-Li Hsu is a Lecturer at the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, at Rice University (USA).

Zusammenfassung

This innovative, timely text introduces the theory and research of critical approaches to language assessment, foregrounding ethical and socially contextualized concerns in language testing and language test validation in today’s globalized world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: M. Rafael Weideman Salaberry
• Mitarbeit: Wei-Li Hsu (Herausgeber), M. Rafael Salaberry (Herausgeber), Salaberry M. Rafael (Herausgeber), Albert Weideman (Herausgeber), Weideman Albert (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032471778
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247177-8
• Seiten: 240
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Lexika, Nachschlagewerke > Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher; Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Language acquisition, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism, Applied linguistics for ELT