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Exploring language frameworks : proceedings of the ALTE Kraków Conference, July 2011
Title
Exploring language frameworks : proceedings of the ALTE Kraków Conference, July 2011 / edited by Evelina D. Galaczi and Cyril J. Weir.
ISBN
9781107677029 (pbk.)
1107677025 (pbk.)
Publication
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xii, 451 pages : illustrations ; cm.
Summary
"This volume explores the impact of language frameworks on learning, teaching and assessment, viewed from the perspective of policies, procedures and challenges. It brings together a selection of edited papers, based on presentations given at the 4th International Conference of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) held in Krakow, Poland, in July 2011. The selected papers focus on the conference's core themes as follows: the effect of frameworks on teaching, learning and assessment; the value of frameworks for teachers, learners and language policymakers; the contribution of frameworks towards describing particular languages"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 05, 2013
Series
Studies in language testing
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Evelina D Galaczi and Cyril J Weir
Language testing and access / Piet Van Avermaet and Lorenzo Rocca
Migration policies in Italy in relation to language requirements. The project Italiano, lingua nostra: impact and limitiations / Giuliana Grego Bolli
The inclusive, plurilingual and intercultural appraoch of the Council of Europe and its implications for evaluation and assessment in language education / Waldemar Martyniuk
European index of multilingual policies and practices / Pawel Poszytek
European survey on language competences-comparability of A1 level competences across five languages / Michaela Perlmann-Balme
Defining an inclusive framework for languages / Neil Jones
Implementing the CEFR in teacher-based assessment: approaches and challenges / Brian North and Elzbieta Jarosz
A progress report on the development of the CEFR-J / Masashi Negishi, Tomoko Takada and Yukio Tono
The impact of the common European framework of reference fo rlanguages on teaching and assessment at the language centres of the universities of Bonn and Gottingen / Ursula Hehl and Nicole Kruczek
'Assessment recollected in tranquility': the ECEP project and the key concepts of the CEFR / Errica Piccardo
Choosing certification exams: how frameworks may guide test users / Marylin Kies
Towards a new phonological control grid / David Horner
The empirical validity of the CEFR Fluency scale: the A2 level description / Katrin Wisniewski
Rating scale design: a comparative study of two analkytic rating scales in a task-based test / Bart Deygers, Koen Van Gorp, Lucia Luyten and Sien Joos
Who, what, where, WENS: the native speaker in the interagency language roundtable scale / Rachel L Brooks and Beth Mackey
Foreign language mediation tasks in a criterion-referenced proficiency examination / Agnes Deveny
IRL-based verbatim translation exams / Maria M Brau
Developing diagnostic tests for young learners of EFL in grades 1 to 6 / Marianne Nikolov and Gabor Szabo
A study of differential item functioning in teh TestDaF reading and listening sections / Thomas Eckes
Do gender, age and first language predict the results in teh Deutsch-Test fur Zuwanderer (DTZ)? / Gudrun Klein
Exploring the relative merits of cognitive diagnostic models and confirmatory factor analysis for assessing listening comprehension / Vahid Aryadoust and Christine C M Goh
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