Introducing Second Language Assessment

Focusing on the key concepts and principles of second language assessment, this textbook offers an up-to-date, accessible, and transparent introduction to the topic. It explores how to select, create, score, and analyze language assessments within various sociopolitical, cultural, and educational contexts.

About the author

Gary J. Ockey is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University, USA, and has taught English as a second or foreign language in elementary, high school, university, and adult language schools in Asia and the US. He has co-authored/edited several books, has been published in various journals, and previously served as the editor of TOEFL Research Report Series and Language Assessment Quarterly.

Summary

Focusing on the key concepts and principles of second language assessment, this textbook offers an up-to-date, accessible, and transparent introduction to the topic. It explores how to select, create, score, and analyze language assessments within various sociopolitical, cultural, and educational contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Gary J. (Iowa State University) Ockey, Gary J. Ockey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.10.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9781009066051
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0906605-1
• Pages: 266
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching theory & methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices