Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives

Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives edited by Marianne Nikolov.

This volume documents international, national, and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners, across a range of educational contexts. It covers three main areas: age-appropriate ‘can do statements’ and task types for teaching and testing learners be...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Nikolov, Marianne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Educational Linguistics, 25
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Language and education.
Assessment.
Learning.
Instruction.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Trends, Issues and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners by Marianne Nikolov
  •  Do Developments in Assessment Represent the ‘Coming of Age’ of Young Learners English Language Teaching Initiatives? The International Picture by Shelagh Rixon
  • A CEFR-Based Inventory of YL Descriptors: Principles and Challenges by Veronica Benigno and John de Jong
  • A Framework for Young EFL Learners’ Diagnostic Assessment: Can Do Statements and Task Types by Marianne Nikolov
  • Examining Content Representativeness of a Young Learner Language Assessment: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives by Ching-Ni Hsieh
  • Developing and Piloting Proficiency Tests for Polish Young Learners by Magdalena Szpotowicz and Dorota E. Campfield
  • The Development and Validation of a Computer-Based Test of English for Young Learners: Cambridge English Young Learners by Szilvia Papp and Agnieszka Walczak
  • Learning EFL from Year 1 or Year 3? A Comparative Study on Children’s EFL Listening and Reading Comprehension at the End of Primary Education by Eva Wilden and Raphaela Porsch
  • A Longitudinal Study of a School’s Assessment Project in Chongqing, China by Jing Peng and Shicheng Zheng
  • Individual Differences and Young Learners’ Performance on L2 Speaking Tests by Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
  • The Role of Individual Differences in the Development of Listening Comprehension in the Early Stages of Language Learning by Éva Bacsa and Csaba Csíkos
  • Self-Assessment of and for Young Learners’ Foreign Language Learning by Yuko Goto Butler
  • The Relationships between Peer- and Self-Assessment and Teacher Assessment of Young EFL Learners’ Oral Presentations by Yu-ju Hung, Beth Lewis Samuelson, and Shu-cheng Chen.

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