Fostering Language Assessment Literacy
Materials, Methods, and Emerging Issues
1st Edition
Published on 9. November 2025
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-1-032-77595-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection showcases language assessment literacy, understood as the knowledge, skills, and principles necessary to engage in assessment activities, by problematizing different approaches to its development and offering insights for language teachers and other stakeholders.
The volume builds on existing research in LAL, which has thus far focused on defining its scope and charting how stakeholder dependent its development can be, to provide readers with ideas to bridge the gap between LAL research and practice. The book is organized around three parts, each structured around practical applications, from designing materials to workshops and courses to the latest issues in LAL pedagogies, particularly around emergent technologies and their implications for teachers. Case studies from around the world are featured to show these dynamics at work across diverse educational and geographic contexts. In centering the discussion on pedagogical approaches, the collection seeks to advance debates and further research and equip teachers and policymakers with further resources to enhance LAL, both in their own classrooms and as an area of inquiry.
This book will be of interest to scholars and stakeholders in language assessment and testing, language education, TESOL, and applied linguistics.
The volume builds on existing research in LAL, which has thus far focused on defining its scope and charting how stakeholder dependent its development can be, to provide readers with ideas to bridge the gap between LAL research and practice. The book is organized around three parts, each structured around practical applications, from designing materials to workshops and courses to the latest issues in LAL pedagogies, particularly around emergent technologies and their implications for teachers. Case studies from around the world are featured to show these dynamics at work across diverse educational and geographic contexts. In centering the discussion on pedagogical approaches, the collection seeks to advance debates and further research and equip teachers and policymakers with further resources to enhance LAL, both in their own classrooms and as an area of inquiry.
This book will be of interest to scholars and stakeholders in language assessment and testing, language education, TESOL, and applied linguistics.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
6 s/w Zeichnungen, 19 s/w Tabellen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 8 s/w Abbildungen
19 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-77595-1 (9781032775951)
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Additional editions
Frank Giraldo | Xun Yan
Fostering Language Assessment Literacy
Materials, Methods, and Emerging Issues
E-Book
11/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Frank Giraldo | Xun Yan
Fostering Language Assessment Literacy
Materials, Methods, and Emerging Issues
E-Book
11/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Frank Giraldo is a professor at the Foreign Languages Department of Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Colombia.
Xun Yan is a professor of Linguistics and Educational Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Xun Yan is a professor of Linguistics and Educational Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Content
Part 1: Materials, 1. Introduction by Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan; 2. LAL training in Vietnam: A teacher-centred approach to resource development by Susan Sheehan and Thuy Thai; 3. Exploring the effect of embedding assessments into a professional development presentation as a means of improving language teachers' assessment competency by Michelle L. Stabler-Havener; 4. Pre-service teachers' language assessment literacy enhancement - Towards pedagogies for LAL by Karin Vogt; Part 2: Methods, 5. Is online language assessment training helpful to improve language assessment literacy? Views of Mexican young learner EFL teachers and training instructors by Elsa Fernanda Gonzalez and Ricardo de la Garza-Cano; 6. Put a little imagination in your collaboration: What can thought experiments do for language assessment literacy? by Newton Paulo Monteiro; 7. Investigating educator-participant interaction in a language assessment MOOC by Richard Spiby, Carolyn Westbrook, and Jordan Weide; Part 3: Emerging Issues, 8. Who will teach the teacher educator? Findings and implications of an online workshop for fostering Brazilian teacher educators' language assessment literacy by Isadora Moraes and Viviane Furtoso; 9. Learning about language assessment to teach young learners: The contribution of an online course by Gladys Quevedo-Camargo and Juliana Reichert Assuncao Tonelli; 10. Critical language assessment literacy (CLAL) of L2 teachers: Unpacking the impact of CLAL-focused teacher education by Zia Tajeddin and Mohsen Mahdavi; 11. Social justice in classroom assessment through teachers' language assessment literacy by Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan; 12. Conclusions by Frank Giraldo and Xun Yan;