Assessing Oral Strategic Competence of Young Language Learners - An Integrative Perspective

This book presents an empirical study that develops and validates a learning-oriented self-assessment instrument for assessing the strategic competence (SC) of young language learners in oral communication, specifically within the context of early English education in China.

List of contents

1 Assessing young language learners: Construct, method and context 2 Working towards an integrative conceptualization of strategic competence: A review of literature 3 Instrument development for assessing oral strategic competence of young language learners: Considerations and methods 4 Validation I: Evaluating, piloting and prototyping 5 Validation II: Field testing 6 Validation III: Synthesis, inferences and decisions 7 Implications and recommendations

About the author

Jun Wang is a lecturer in English language at the School of Languages, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China. Her research interests include strategic competence, assessing young language learners and speaking assessments.
Yan Jin is a professor of linguistics and applied linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of language testing and assessment, particularly the development and validation of large-scale language tests.

Summary

This book presents an empirical study that develops and validates a learning-oriented self-assessment instrument for assessing the strategic competence (SC) of young language learners in oral communication, specifically within the context of early English education in China.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Jin, Jun Wang, Jun Jin Wang, Wang Jun
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032902340
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290234-0
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Linguistics, EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, Teaching of a specific subject