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Individualizing the assessment of language abilities

edited by John H.A.L. de Jong and Douglas K. Stevenson

(Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 59)

Multilingual Matters, c1990

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Selected papers presented at the 1987 AILA World Congress in Sydney, Australia

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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