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Title

Aligning tests with the CEFR : reflections on using the Council of Europe's draft manual / edited by Waldemar Martyniuk.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Martyniuk, Waldemar

Description

xxiii, 272 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Council of Europe released a preliminary version of the Manual for Relating Language Examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in 2003. A variety of institutions and individuals conducted case studies to pilot this draft version, prior to its revision in 2008/9. This volume features selected case studies presented at a colloquium in Cambridge in December 2007, where practitioners and academics shared their experiences of applying the Manual procedures. Projects included the linking of a single test to the CEFR, the linking of suites of examinations at different levels and large-scale national studies undertaken by examination boards and specialist research institutes. As well as describing their approaches and reporting their findings, contributors reflect and comment on their experience of using the draft Manual. An introductory chapter explains the development of the CEFR and the draft Manual, discussing their relevance for the future. -- PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION.

Series Statement

Studies in language testing ; 33

Uniform Title

Studies in language testing 33.

Subject

• Second language acquisition > Ability testing
• Language and languages > Ability testing
• Language Tests

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Section One Linking single tests to the CEFR -- 1.The City & Guilds Communicator examination linking project: a brief overview with reflections on the process / Barry O'Sullivan -- 2.Putting the Manual to the test: the TestDaF-CEFR linking project / Thomas Eckes -- 3.Maintaining alignment to the CEFR: the FCE case study / Angeliki Salamoura -- 4.Benchmarking a high-stakes proficiency exam: the COPE linking project / Barry O'Sullivan -- 5.Mapping the Advanced Level Certificate in English (ALCE) examination onto the CEFR / Charalambos Kollias -- Section Two Linking a suite of exams to the CEFR -- 6.Relating language examinations to the CEFR: ECL as a case study / Gabor Szabo -- 7.Linking international examinations to the CEFR: the Trinity College London experience / Spiros Papageorgiou -- 8.Linking the CILS examinations to the CEFR: the Al speaking test / Sabrina Machetti -- 9.Linking the general English suite of Euro Examinations to the CEFR: a case study report / Gergely A David -- 10.Relating the GEPT reading comprehension tests to the CEFR / Rachel Wu -- Section Three Large-scale multilingual assessment frameworks at national level -- 11.Asset Languages: a case study of piloting the CEFR Manual / Tamsin Walker -- 12.Mapping the Dutch foreign language state examinations onto the CEFR / Henk Kuijper.

ISBN

9780521176842 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010023939

OCLC

• 640918016
• SCSB-12322509

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Harvard Library