Individualizing the assessment of language abilities
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Individualizing the assessment of language abilities
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 59）
Multilingual Matters, c1990
- pbk.
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Note
Selected papers presented at the 1987 AILA World Congress in Sydney, Australia
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
SECTION I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON INDIVIDUALIZED ASSESSMENT
1. Bernard Spolsky: Social Aspects of Individual Assessment
2. Arthur Hughes: Response to Spolsky
3. J. Charles Alderson: Learner-Centred Testing through Computers: Institutional Issues in Individual Assessment
4. Paul Tuffin: Response to Alderson
5. Grant Henning: National Issues in Individual Assessment: The Consideration of Specialization Bias in University Language Screening Tests
6. Graeme D. Kennedy: Response to Henning: Limits of Language Testing
7. Geofferey N. Masters: Psychometric Aspects of Individual Assessment
8. John H.A.L. de Jong: Response to Masters: Linguistic Theory and Psychometric Models
SECTION 11: LANGUAGE TEACHING AND INDIVIDUALIZED ASSESSMENT
9. Rod Ellis: Individual Learning Styles in Classroom Second Language Development
10. Denis Levasseur and Michel Page: Comprehension of Sentences and of lntersentential Relations by 11- to 15-Year-Old Pupils
11. Rosalind Horowitz: Discourse Organization in Oral and Written Language: Critical Contrasts for Literacy and Schooling
12. Antonella Sorace: Indeterminacy in First and Second Languages: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
13. Norma Norrish: An Experiment in Individualization Using Technological Support
14. Harry L. Gradman and Edith Hanania: Discrete Focus vs. Global Tests: Performance on Selected Verb Structures
SECTION III: INDIVIDUALIZATION AND ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
15. Alan Davies: Operationalising Uncertainty in Language Testing: An Argument in Favour of Content Validity
16. Mary Kalantzis, Diana Slade, and Bill Cope: Minority Languages and Mainstream Culture: Problems of Equity and Assessment
17. Tan Soon Hock: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Language Proficiency as Predictors of Reading Comprehension among Undergraduates
18. Gillian Perrett: The Language Testing Interview: A Reappraisal
19. Gill Westaway. J. Charles Alderson and Caroline M. Clapham: Directions in Testing for Specific Purposes
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