Research Catalog

Title

Exploring language frameworks : proceedings of the ALTE Kraków Conference, July 2011 / edited by Evelina D. Galaczi and Cyril J. Weir.

Author

ALTE Conference (4th : 2011 : Kraków, Poland)

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Dimitrova-Galaczi, Evelina, 1967-
• Weir, Cyril J.

Description

xii, 451 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This volume explores the impact of language frameworks on learning, teaching and assessment, viewed from the perspective of policies, procedures and challenges. It brings together a selection of edited papers, based on presentations given at the 4th International Conference of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) held in Krakow, Poland, in July 2011. The selected papers focus on the conference's core themes as follows: the effect of frameworks on teaching, learning and assessment; the value of frameworks for teachers, learners and language policymakers; the contribution of frameworks towards describing particular languages"--

Series Statement

Studies in language testing ; 36

Uniform Title

Studies in language testing ; 36.

Subject

• Language and languages > Evaluation > Europe > Congresses
• Language and languages > Ability testing > Europe > Congresses
• Second language acquisition > Ability testing > Europe > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Evelina D Galaczi and Cyril J Weir -- Language testing and access / Piet Van Avermaet and Lorenzo Rocca -- Migration policies in Italy in relation to language requirements. The project Italiano, lingua nostra: impact and limitiations / Giuliana Grego Bolli -- The inclusive, plurilingual and intercultural appraoch of the Council of Europe and its implications for evaluation and assessment in language education / Waldemar Martyniuk -- European index of multilingual policies and practices / Pawel Poszytek -- European survey on language competences-comparability of A1 level competences across five languages / Michaela Perlmann-Balme -- Defining an inclusive framework for languages / Neil Jones -- Implementing the CEFR in teacher-based assessment: approaches and challenges / Brian North and Elzbieta Jarosz -- A progress report on the development of the CEFR-J / Masashi Negishi, Tomoko Takada and Yukio Tono -- The impact of the common European framework of reference fo rlanguages on teaching and assessment at the language centres of the universities of Bonn and Gottingen / Ursula Hehl and Nicole Kruczek -- 'Assessment recollected in tranquility': the ECEP project and the key concepts of the CEFR / Errica Piccardo -- Choosing certification exams: how frameworks may guide test users / Marylin Kies -- Towards a new phonological control grid / David Horner -- The empirical validity of the CEFR Fluency scale: the A2 level description / Katrin Wisniewski -- Rating scale design: a comparative study of two analkytic rating scales in a task-based test / Bart Deygers, Koen Van Gorp, Lucia Luyten and Sien Joos -- Who, what, where, WENS: the native speaker in the interagency language roundtable scale / Rachel L Brooks and Beth Mackey -- Foreign language mediation tasks in a criterion-referenced proficiency examination / Agnes Deveny -- IRL-based verbatim translation exams / Maria M Brau -- Developing diagnostic tests for young learners of EFL in grades 1 to 6 / Marianne Nikolov and Gabor Szabo -- A study of differential item functioning in teh TestDaF reading and listening sections / Thomas Eckes -- Do gender, age and first language predict the results in teh Deutsch-Test fur Zuwanderer (DTZ)? / Gudrun Klein -- Exploring the relative merits of cognitive diagnostic models and confirmatory factor analysis for assessing listening comprehension / Vahid Aryadoust and Christine C M Goh

ISBN

• 9781107677029 (pbk.)
• 1107677025 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012040146

OCLC

• 818865791
• SCSB-12381021

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