Local Language Testing: Practice Across Contexts (Paperback, 2023)

Introduction.- Part I: Development and Implementation.-?Developing a local placement test for Italian: Successes and limitations from a test developer's perspective; Carmen De Lorenzo and Koen Van Gorp.- Innovative assessment of Tourism English via a spoken dialog system: A local digitally delivered Tourism English assessment; Yasin Karatay.- Creating a role-play test-task and an indigenous rubric for dispensing drugs in English for Thai pharmacy students; Sasithorn Limgomolvilas and Jirada Wudthayagorn.- Identifying the phonological errors of second-modality, second-language (M2-L2) novice signers through video-based mock tests; Luigi Lerose.- Dynamic Assessment and Placement Exams in Second Language Programs: The Development and Implementation of a Language Diagnostic in a Study Abroad Context; Susana Madinabeitia Manso and Eduardo Negueruela Azarola.- Using Multi-Faceted Rasch Analysis to Examine Raters, Prompts, and Rubrics in an Office-Hour Role-Play Task; Haoshan Ren, Stephen Looney and Sara Cushing.- Part II: Validation and Use.- The validity of the MLAT-ES and MLAT-EC aptitude tests for young bilingual learners of a foreign language; Maria del Mar Suarez and Charles Stansfield.- Validation of the Czech Language Certificate Exam with Respect to the Local Context; Martina Hulesova and Katerina Vodickova.- Speaking 'CEFR' about local tests: What mapping a placement test to the CEFR can and can't do; Suzanne Springer and Martyna Kozlowska.- Building an assessment use argument for the national evaluation of learning outcomes among Finnish 6th graders' learning English; Marita Harmala and Raili Hilden.- Expectations, patterns, and strengths and limitations of correlations among language proficiency test scores; April Ginther, Lixia Cheng, Xiarorui Li and Sharareh Taghizadeh Vahed.- Impact of a Brazilian three-phased university admission program on the teaching practices of public- school Spanish teachers; Rafael S. R. de Melo and Gladys Quevedo-Camargo.