This book presents an overview of communicative language teaching and testing in Central and Eastern European countries. It focuses on the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR) and its model of language use. The author provides a user-friendly introduction to the process of linking local language examinations to the common reference levels of language proficiency in order to encourage local examination providers to assure quality in high-stakes testing. In response to different approaches in language examination development, the book includes some practical samples as well as practical advice on how to improve the effectiveness of the examinations developed and implemented in local contexts.
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Jana Béresová is an Associate Professor, teaching at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education, Trnava University in Slovakia. She is intensively engaged in teacher training to improve communicative language teaching and testing. Her participation in the ECML training and consultancy programme enables her to optimize local examinations.
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Festeinband. Etat : Sehr gut. 180 Seiten : 13 Illustrationen ; 24 cm x 17 cm. Tadelloses Exemplar -- This book presents an overview of communicative language teaching and testing in Central and Eastern European countries. It focuses on the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR) and its model of language use. The author provides a user-friendly introduction to the process of linking local language examinations to the common reference levels of language proficiency in order to encourage local examination providers to assure quality in high-stakes testing. In response to different approaches in language examination development, the book includes some practical samples as well as practical advice on how to improve the effectiveness of the examinations developed and implemented in local contexts. -- Table of Contents: Foreword -- 1 Language Assessment - Purposefully Chosen Terminology -- High-stakes Language Testing -- Fairness -- Ethics in Testing -- Authenticity -- Validity -- Reliability -- Other Issues Related to Testing -- 2 Communicative Language Teaching and Testing -- Communicative Language Teaching -- A Short Theoretical Background -- Communicative Language Teaching in Slovakia -- Communicative Language Testing -- A Short History of Language Testing -- Communicative Testing in Slovakia -- 3 The CEFR and Its Impact on Testing -- An Action-oriented Approach -- The CEFR and the Manual -- Familiarisation -- Specification -- Standardisation and Benchmarking -- Standard Setting -- Validation -- 4 English School-leaving Examinations in Their Local Contexts -- An Analysis of English School-leaving Examinations in Selected European Countries -- Testing Listening -- Listening Tasks and Items -- Teacher's Estimations versus Official Scores in Listening Sections of the English Tests -- Testing Reading -- Selection of Texts -- Reading Tasks and Items -- Teacher's Estimations versus Official Scores in Reading Sections of the English Tests -- Testing Grammar and Vocabulary -- Selected-response Tasks -- Limited-production Tasks -- Testing Writing -- Tasks and Rubrics -- Genre-based Writing -- Scoring -- Training Raters -- Testing Speaking -- Early Changes in Testing Speaking in Slovakia (1989-2005) -- Benefits from the Reform -- An Analysis of the Decree Concerning Testing Speaking -- Rating Scales -- Closing Comments to Testing Speaking -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Local Contexts -- Constructing Language Tests -- Classroom Testing and Summative Assessment. ISBN 9783631718292 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495. N° de réf. du vendeur 1085880
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