Description
This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing provides an updated and comprehensive account of the area of language testing and assessment.
The volume brings together 35 authoritative articles, divided into ten sections, written by 51 leading specialists from around the world. There are five entirely new chapters covering the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as a new entry on corpus linguistics and language testing. The remaining 30 chapters have been revised, often extensively, or entirely rewritten with new authorship teams at the helm, reflecting new generations of expertise in the field. With a dedicated section on technology in language testing, reflecting current trends in the field, the Handbook also includes an extended epilogue written by Harding and Fulcher, contemplating what has changed between the first and second editions and charting a trajectory for the field of language testing and assessment.
Providing a basis for discussion, project work, and the design of both language tests themselves and related validation research, this Handbook represents an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners working in language testing and assessment and the wider field of language education.
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Editorial. Glenn Fulcher and Luke Harding
Section 1: Validity
Chapter 1: Conceptions of validity. Carol A. Chapelle and Hye-won Lee
Chapter 2: Articulating a validity argument. Michael Kane
Chapter 3: Inference and prediction in language testing. Steven J. Ross
Section 2: The Uses of Language Testing
Chapter 4: Social dimensions of language testing. Richard Young
Chapter 5: Designing language tests for specific purposes. Carol Moder and Gene Halleck
Chapter 6: Revisiting language assessment for immigration and citizenship. Antony John Kunnan
Section 3: Classroom Assessment and Washback
Chapter 7: Classroom based assessment. Janna Fox, Nwara Abdulhamid and Carolyn Turner
Chapter 8: Washback: looking backwards and forwards. Liying Cheng and Nasreen Sultana
Chapter 9: Assessing young learners. Yuko Goto Butler
Chapter 10: Dynamic assessment. Marta Antón and Próspero García
Chapter 11: Diagnostic assessment in language classrooms. Eunice Jang and Jeanne Sinclair
Section 4: Assessing the Language Skills
Chapter 12: Assessing speaking. Fumiyo Nakatsuhara, Nahal Khabbazbashi and Chihiro Inoue
Chapter 13: Assessing listening. Elvis Wagner
Chapter 14: Assessing writing. Ute Knoch
Chapter 15: Assessing reading. Tineke Brunfaut
Section 5: Test Design and Administration
Chapter 16: Test specifications. Jin Yan
Chapter 17: Evidence-centred design in language testing. Chengbin Yin and Robery Mislevy
Chapter 18: Accommodations and universal design. Jamal Abedi
Chapter 19: Rater and interlocutor training. Larry Davis
Section 6: Writing Items and Tasks
Chapter 20: Item writing and item writers. Dong-il Shin
Chapter 21: Writing integrated tasks. Lia Plakans
Chapter 22: Test-taking strategies and task design. Andrew Cohen
Section 7: Prototyping and Field Tests
Chapter 23: Prototyping new item types. Susan Nissan and Elizabeth Park
Chapter 24: Pre-operational testing. Benjamin Kremmel, Kathrin Eberharter and Franz Holzknecht
Chapter 25: Piloting vocabulary tests. John Read
Section 8: Measurement Theory in Language Testing
Chapter 26: Classical test theory. J. D. Brown
Chapter 27: Item Response Theory and Many-Facet Rasch Measurement. Gary Ockey
Chapter 28: Reliability and dependability. Xun Yan and Jason Fan
Chapter 29: Scoring performance tests. Evelina Galaczi and Gad Lim
Section 9: Technology in Language Testing
Chapter 30: Validity and the automated scoring of performance tests. Xiaoming Xi
Chapter 31: Computer-based testing. Yasuyo Sawaki
Chapter 32: Corpus linguistics and language testing. Sara Cushing
Section 10: Ethics, Fairness and Policy
Chapter 33: Ethics and fairness. F. Scott Walters
Chapter 34: Standards in language proficiency measurement. Bart Deygers
Chapter 35: Quality management in test production and administration. Nick Saville and Sarah McElwee
Epilogue
Chapter 36: Language testing: where are we heading? Luke Harding and Glenn Fulcher
Index