Assessing academic English for higher education admissions

Author(s)

• Xi, Xiaoming
• Norris, John Michael

Bibliographic Information

Assessing academic English for higher education admissions

edited by Xiaoming Xi and John M. Norris

（Innovations in language learning and assessment at ETS, v. 6）

Routledge, 2021

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. The volume includes a brief introduction followed by four main chapters focusing on critical developments in theories and practices for assessing reading, listening, writing, and speaking, of which the latter two also address the assessment of integrated skills such as reading-writing, listening-speaking, and reading-listening-speaking. Each chapter reviews new task types, scoring approaches, and scoring technologies and their implications in light of the increasing use of technology in academic communication and the growing use of English as a lingua franca worldwide. The volume concludes with recommendations about critical areas of research and development that will help move the field forward. Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is an ideal resource for researchers and graduate students in language testing and assessment worldwide.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Figures List of Tables Series Editors' Foreword Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 Framing the Assessment of Academic English for Admissions Decisions John M. Norris, John McE. Davis, and Xiaoming Xi CHAPTER 2 Assessing Academic Reading Mary Schedl, Tenaha O'Reilly, William Grabe, and Rob Schoonen CHAPTER 3 Assessing Academic Listening Spiros Papageorgiou, Jonathan Schmidgall, Luke Harding, Susan Nissan, and Robert French CHAPTER 4 Assessing Academic Writing Alister Cumming, Yeonsuk Cho, Jill Burstein, Philip Everson, and Robert Kantor CHAPTER 5 Assessing Academic Speaking Xiaoming Xi, John M. Norris, Gary J. Ockey, Glenn Fulcher, and James E. Purpura CHAPTER 6 Looking Ahead to the Next Generation of Academic English Assessments Carol A. Chapelle List of Contributors

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BD00771709
• ISBN:
  • 9780815350637
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 219 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 428.0076
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Ability testing
  • LCSH : English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
  • LCSH : Communicative competence
  • LCSH : Language and education
  • LCSH : Education, Higher
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB23770325