Testing In Language Programs: A Comprehensive Guide To English Language Assessment

Brown, James Dean

Literature & Fiction

Mcgraw-Hill College

This series for teachers and teacher trainers gives sound, straightforward advice on good teaching methods, and practical suggestions for lessons and activities.
This book teaches how to develop and/or adapt all types of language testing. -- Teachers and administrators learn how to make responsible and professional proficiency, placement, diagnostic, and achievement decisions, as well as how to design tests for program-level decisions and classroom-level decisions. -- Topics include: types and uses of tests; developing, adapting, and improving tests; describing results and interpreting scores; correlation; test reliability; test validity and standards testing; and testing and curriculum.

Testing in Language Programs

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

PRENTICE/HALL

This book systematically explains the characteristics and purposes of various types of research, including terminology, and the typical steps of each type of research design.

Doing Second Language Research (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers Series)

Reference

Rodgers, Theodore S.

English as a Second Language

Oxford University Press

Shaping Learners’ Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)

A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With accessible, non-technical language, the authors show how phoneme variations, simple transitions, dropping sounds, inserting sounds, and changing sounds operate, and how CS is integral to English language teaching, especially for developing non-native users’ oral English communicative ability. 
Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.

Crowther, Dustin

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With accessible, non-technical language, the authors show how phoneme variations, simple transitions, dropping sounds, inserting sounds, and changing sounds operate, and how CS is integral to English language teaching, especially for developing non-native users' oral English communicative ability. Each chapter features explicit discussions of pedagogical ideas targeting L2 learners, further resources, and CS-oriented exercises that are accessible and easy to implement for L2 teachers. These exercises are accompanied when relevant with recorded audio examples of CS production at www.routledge.com/9780367697570.

Over the past decade criterion-referenced testing (CRT) has become an emerging issue in language assessment. Most language testing books have hitherto focused almost exclusively on norm-referenced testing, whereby test takers' scores are interpreted with reference to the performance of other test takers, and have ignored CRT, an approach that examines the level of knowledge of a specific domain of target behaviours. It is designed to comprehensively address the wide variety of CRT and decision-making needs that more and more language-teaching professionals must address in their daily work. Criterion-referenced Language Testing is the first volume to create a nexus between the theoretical constructs and practical applications of this new area of language testing.

Criterion-Referenced Language Testing (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)

Cambridge University Press

This text focuses on the skills and processes necessary for understanding statistical research in language learning Designed for language teachers with no previous background in statistics, the paperback edition focuses on the skills and processes necessary for understanding statistical research in language learning. Brown explains the basic terms of statistics, the structure and organization of statistical research reports, the system of statistical logic, and how to decipher tables, charts, and graphs. By the end of the book, readers will be able to make knowledgeable judgments about the relative qualities of a study and to assess the value of the results of a study in relation to a specific language teaching situation.

Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

This text presents a comprehensive but practical overview of how to develop and implement effective survey projects. This book presents a comprehensive but practical overview of the different phases and activities involved in the development and implementation of effective survey projects by language teaching professionals. It is accessible to graduate students, language teachers, administrators, and researchers. The theoretical and practical issues involved in survey design are defined and discussed. Each chapter includes a list of key terms, a set of review questions, and a collection of exercises for practical application. Language teaching professionals will find all the crucial information needed to survey students and teachers about their beliefs and practices.

Using Surveys in Language Programs (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

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Testing In Language Programs: A Comprehensive Guide To English Language Assessment

Testing in Language Programs

Doing Second Language Research (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers Series)

Shaping Learners’ Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)

Shaping Learners’ Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)

Criterion-Referenced Language Testing (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)

Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

Using Surveys in Language Programs (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

Using Surveys in Language Programs (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)