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This volume addresses the broad theme and specific topics associated with current thinking in the field of language testing and assessment.The volume offers-multiple perspectives on the 'what' (the 'trait') of languages, and the 'how' ('the method') of assessment-multiple approaches developed for assessment especially given the multiplicity of languages used by many diverse groups of learners in many different contexts-focus on the societal roles of language testers, their responsibility to be socially accountable and to ensure ethicality and professionalism-focus on language testing in multilingual and diverse contextsThis is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
List of contents
General Editor's Introduction / Nancy H. Hornberger .- Introduction to volume 7: Language Testing and Assessment / Elana Shohamy .- Contributors .- Reviewers .- Section 1: Assessing Language Domains .- Section 2: Methods of Assessment .- Section 3: Assessment in Education .- Section 4: Assessment in Society .- Subject Index .- Name Index
About the author
Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hornberger's areas of specialization include language planning and policy; bilingualism, bilingual education and biliteracy; and the ethnography of communication.
Summary
This volume addresses the broad theme and specific topics associated with current thinking in the field of language testing and assessment.
The volume offers
•multiple perspectives on the ‘what’ (the ‘trait’) of languages, and the ‘how’ (‘the method’) of assessment
•multiple approaches developed for assessment especially given the multiplicity of languages used by many diverse groups of learners in many different contexts
•focus on the societal roles of language testers, their responsibility to be socially accountable and to ensure ethicality and professionalism
•focus on language testing in multilingual and diverse contexts
This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
