Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners

Name: Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners
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ISBN: 9780472032013

ISBN-10: 0472032011

ISBN-13: 9780472032013

Edition: 2007

Authors: Keith S. Folse, Nancy Hubley, Christine Coombe

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For many teachers of English language learners, the field of assessment is foreign territory. Assessment has its own culture, traditions, and terminology. This training guide is intended to help classroom teachers become more comfortable creating and using assessments.A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learnersprovides helpful insights into the practice and terminology of assessment. The text focuses on providing the cornerstones of good assessmentsusefulness, validity, reliability, practicality, washback, authenticity, transparency, and securityand techniques for testing. It devotes a chapter to the assessment of each of the four main skill areas (reading, writing, listening,…

Book details

List price: $30.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 2/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Dr. Keith Folse is a Professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of 57 textbooks on a variety of subjects from grammar to vocabulary to composition, including five best-selling books in the Great Writing series by National Geographic Learning.



Are you testwise?


Introduction to issues in language assessment and terminology



The process of developing assessment



Techniques for testing



Assessing reading



Assessing writing



Assessing listening



Assessing speaking



Student test-taking strategies



Administering assessment



Using assessment



Assessing ESL students' knowledge of content in K-12 classes



Standardized ESL/EFL tests