Language Testing and Assessment: Encyclopedia of Language and Educationvolume 7 (Paperback, 2008)

General Editor's Introduction / Nancy H. Hornberger Introduction to volume 7: Language Testing and Assessment / Elana Shohamy Contributors Reviewers Section 1: Assessing Language Domains 1. Assessing Oral and Literate Abilities / Alister Cumming 2. Assessment in Multilingual Societies / Rama Mathew 3. Assessing Communicative Language Ability: Models and their Components / James E. Purpura 4. Assessment at the Workplace / Kieran O'Loughlin 5. Testing Aptitude for Second Language Learning / Charles Stansfield and Paula Winke Section 2: Methods of Assessment 7. Alternative Assessment / Janna Fox 8. Task and Performance Based Assessment / Gillian Wigglesworth 9. Utilizing Technology in Language Assessment / Carol A. Chapelle 10. Large Scale Language Assessments / Antony John Kunnan 11. Criteria for Evaluating Language Quality / Glenn Fulcher 12. Methods of Test Validation / Xiaoming Xi 13. Utilizing Qualitative Methods for Assessment / Anne Lazaraton 14. Utilizing Psychometric Methods in Assessment / Micheline Chalhoub-Deville and Craig Deville 15. Training in Language Assessment / Margaret E. Malone 16. Using Corpora for Language Assessment / Lynda Taylor and Fiona Barker Section 3: Assessment in Education 17. Classroom-based Language Assessment / Pauline Rea-Dickins 18. Dynamic Assessment / James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner 19. Language Assessment Culture / Ofra Inbar-Lourie 20. Assessing Second/Additional Language of Diverse Populations / Constant Leung and Jo Lewkowicz 21. Assessment in Indigenous Language Programmes / Cath Rau 22. Utilizing Accommodations in Assessment / Jamal Abedi 23. Washback, Impact and Consequences / Liying Cheng 24. Educational Reform and Language Testing / Geoff Brindley 25. Assessing the Language of Young Learners / Alison L. Bailey Section 4: Assessment in Society 26. High-States Tests as de facto Language Education Policies / Kate Menken 27. The Socio-political and Power Dimensions of Tests / Tim McNamara 28. Ethics, Professionalism, Rights and Codes / Alan Davies 29. Language Assessment in Historical and Future Perspective / Bernard Spolsky Subject Index Name Index