Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5064-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment at ETS

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. The volume includes a brief introduction followed by four main chapters focusing on critical developments in theories and practices for assessing reading, listening, writing, and speaking, of which the latter two also address the assessment of integrated skills such as reading-writing, listening-speaking, and reading-listening-speaking. Each chapter reviews new task types, scoring approaches, and scoring technologies and their implications in light of the increasing use of technology in academic communication and the growing use of English as a lingua franca worldwide. The volume concludes with recommendations about critical areas of research and development that will help move the field forward. Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is an ideal resource for researchers and graduate students in language testing and assessment worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xi, Xiaoming

Norris, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS



List of Figures


List of Tables


Series Editors’ Foreword


Acknowledgements


CHAPTER 1


Framing the Assessment of Academic English for Admissions Decisions

John M. Norris, John McE. Davis, and Xiaoming Xi



CHAPTER 2


Assessing Academic Reading

Mary Schedl, Tenaha O’Reilly, William Grabe, and Rob Schoonen



CHAPTER 3


Assessing Academic Listening

Spiros Papageorgiou, Jonathan Schmidgall, Luke Harding, Susan Nissan, and Robert French


CHAPTER 4


Assessing Academic Writing

Alister Cumming, Yeonsuk Cho, Jill Burstein, Philip Everson, and Robert Kantor



CHAPTER 5


Assessing Academic Speaking

Xiaoming Xi, John M. Norris, Gary J. Ockey, Glenn Fulcher, and James E. Purpura



CHAPTER 6


Looking Ahead to the Next Generation of Academic English Assessments

Carol A. Chapelle



List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Xiaoming Xi is Chief of Product, Assessment and Learning at VIPKID International, USA.

John M. Norris is Senior Research Director of the Center for Language Education and Assessment Research at Educational Testing Service, USA.