Testing the Untestable in Language Education - New Perspectives on Language and Education

Informationen zum Autor Amos Paran is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he is Programme Leader of the MA TESOL. He has a special interest in masterâ?(TM)s level teaching by distance learning, and has also been involved in testing projects in a variety of different languages. His main research interests are reading in a foreign language, literature in language teaching, and distance education. Lies Sercu is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leuven. Her research interests concern the promotion of intercultural competence through foreign language education as well as SLA vocabulary acquisition from reading and writing texts in a foreign language. She has been involved in the development of language tests and blended learning environments for the professionalisation of language teachers. She has widely published in major international journals on intercultural competence and foreign vocabulary acquisition. Klappentext This book investigates the intersections between language learning and assessment and four specific areas within language learning: learner autonomy, intercultural competence, literary competence and the integration of content and language learning. It is a valuable study of the seemingly untestable facets of foreign language competence.

Product details

• Authors: Amos Paran, Amos (EDT)/ Sercu Paran
• Assisted by: Amos Paran (Editor), Dr Lies Sercu (Editor), Lies Sercu (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2010
• EAN: 9781847692665
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-266-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Perspectives on Language a; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology