The Concise Companion to Language Assessment
Description
The Concise Companion to Language Assessment provides a state-of-the-art overview of the crucial areas of language assessment, teaching, and learning. Edited by one of the foremost scholars in the field, The Concise Companion combines newly commissioned articles on innovations in assessment with a selection of chapters from The Companion to Language Assessment, the landmark four-volume reference work first published in 2013.
Presented in eight themes, The Concise Companion addresses a broad range of language assessment methods, issues, and contexts. Forty-five chapters cover assessment conceptualization, development, research, and policy, as well as recent changes in language assessment technology, learning-oriented assessment, teacher-based assessment, teacher assessment literacy, plurilingual assessment, assessment for immigration, and more.
Exploring the past, present, and future possibilities of the dynamic field, The Concise Companion to Language Assessment:
- Contains dedicated chapters on listening, speaking, reading writing, vocabulary, pronunciation, intercultural competence, and other language skills
- Describes fundamental assessment design and scoring guidelines, as well as advanced concepts in scenario-based assessment and automated performance scoring
- Provides insights on different assessment environments, such as classrooms, universities, employment, immigration, and healthcare
- Covers various qualitative and quantitative research methods, including introspective methods, classical reliability, and structural equation modeling
- Discusses the impacts of colonialism and discrimination on the history of language assessment
- Explores the use of AI in writing evaluation, plagiarism and cheating detection, and other assessment contexts
Sure to become a standard text for the next generation of applied linguistics students, The Concise Companion to Language Assessment is an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics, language assessment, TESOL, second language acquisition, and language policy.
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ANTONY JOHN KUNNAN is a specialist in language assessment research who has held academic positions in many universities including ones in Bangalore, Los Angeles, Yerevan, Taichung, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau. He has published widely on various topics including validation and fairness and policy and practice for immigration and citizenship. His most recent authored book is Evaluating Language Assessments published in 2018. He was the founding Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly, the founding President of the Asian Association for Language Assessment, and the past President of the International Language Testing Association. In 2024, he was awarded the Cambridge-ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award in language assessment.
Content
About the Editor xi
List of Contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Theme 1 Fundamental Considerations
1 How to Conceptualize and Implement a Language Assessment 3
Lyle F. Bachman and Barbara Damböck
2 Learning-Oriented Language Assessment 22
James Enos Purpura
3 Assessing Integrated Skills 42
Alister Cumming
4 Dynamic Assessment in the Classroom 55
Matthew E. Poehner
5 Designing Evaluations for Validation of Language Assessments 67
Carol A. Chapelle, Erik Voss, and Haeun Kim
6 Fairness and Justice in Language Assessment 80
Antony John Kunnan
7 Statistics and Software for Test Revisions 93
Yo In'nami and Rie Koizumi
8 Language Assessment and Artificial Intelligence 112
Erik Voss
Theme 2 Assessing Language Skills and Resources
9 Assessing Listening 129
Elvis Wagner
10 Assessing Speaking 143
Barry O'Sullivan Copyrighted Material
11 Assessing Reading 154
William Grabe and Xiangying Jiang
12 Assessing Writing 168
Cecilia Guanfang Zhao
13 Assessing the Linguistic Resources of Meaningful Communication 181
James Enos Purpura and Saerhim Oh
14 Assessing Vocabulary 205
John Read
15 Assessing Pronunciation 216
Talia Isaacs
16 Assessing Interactional Competence and Pragmatics 230
Carsten Roever
Theme 3 Assessment Development and Evaluation
17 Assessing English as a Lingua Franca 245
Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung
18 Scenario- Based Language Assessment 255
Heidi Liu Banerjee
19 Adapting or Developing Source Materials for Listening and Reading Tests 270
Anthony Green
20 Automated Writing Assessment and Feedback 285
Sara T. Cushing and Sha Liu
Theme 4 Assessment Contexts
21 Classroom-Based Assessment Issues for Language Teacher Education 303
Constant Leung
22 Assessment of Young Language Learners 312
Mikyung Kim Wolf
23 Monitoring Progress in the Classroom 326
Matthew E. Poehner and Rama Mathew
24 Diagnostic Assessment Feedback in the 21st- Century Technology-Rich Classroom 339
Eunice Eunhee Jang, Maryam Wagner, Liam Hannah, and Hyunah Kim
25 Evolution and Future Trends in Tests of English for University Admissions 355
Xiaoming Xi, Brent Bridgeman, and Cathy Wendler
26 Assessing Health and Other Professionals 371
Lynda Taylor and John Pill
27 Acoustic and Temporal Analysis for Assessing Speaking 383
Okim Kang and Lucy Pickering
Theme 5 Assessment for Immigration and Citizenship
28 Language Testing for Residence and Citizenship in Europe: Justifications, Consequences, and Debates 401
Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen
29 Language Assessment for Immigration in Australia: Test- Policy- Discourse Entanglements and Their Ethical Implications 417
Kellie Frost
30 U.S. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Naturalization Test: Policies and practices 432
Antony John Kunnan
Theme 6 Qualitative Research Methods
31 Introspective Methods 453
Miyuki Sasaki and Yuhang Hu
32 Test-Taking Strategies 473
Yuyang Cai
33 Consequences, Impact, and Washback 496
Liying Cheng
34 Language Testing in the Dock 509
Glenn Fulcher
Theme 7 Quantitative Research Methods
35 Historical Overview of Classical Theory: Reliability 527
James Dean Brown
36 Classical Test Theory - Reliability 541
Yasuyo Sawaki
37 Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Score Interpretations in Language Assessment 555
Ikkyu Choi
38 Practical Uses of EFA and SEM for Language Assessment Researchers 570
Gary J. Ockey
39 Item Response Theory in Language Assessment 588
Shangchao Min and Lianzhen He
40 Many-Facet Rasch Analysis for Evaluating Second Language Tests 602
Khaled Barkaoui
41 Psychometric Considerations for a Computerized Adaptive Language Test 619
Steven W. Nydick, J.R. Lockwood, and Mancy Liao
Theme 8 The Role of Technology
42 Computer-Assisted Language Testing 637
Ruslan Suvorov, Yasin Karatay, and Volker Hegelheimer
43 Computer-Adaptive Language Testing: Focus on Language Issues 649
Ramsey Cardwell, Ben Naismith, and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
44 Automated Writing Evaluation 661
Jill Burstein and Yigal Attali
45 Detecting Plagiarism and Cheating 671
Ardeshir Geranpayeh
Index 681
