Focus on Assessment
Eunice Jang
Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom
Helps teachers understand research evidence in language assessment for students aged 5-18, and to develop an ability to design, implement and critically evaluate language assessment, with reference to language frameworks and standards for assessment in school education.
Eunice Eunhee Jang
Focus on Assessment
Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom series
Focus on Assessment
Eunice Eunhee Jang
Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching
Patsy M. Lightbown
Focus on Oral Interaction
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The authors and publisher are grateful to those who have given permission to reproduce the following extracts and adaptations of copyright material: p.6 Extract from �Book review: Penny McKay (2006) Assessing young language learners, Cambridge University Press’ by Constant Leung, Language Testing Vol. 26 (1) pp. 145–149. Copyright © 2009 by SAGE Publications. Reproduced by permission of SAGE; pp.24–6 Extracts from �How to Assess Language in the Social Studies Classroom’ by Rod Case and Kathryn M. Obenchain, The Social Studies Vol. 97 (1), Taylor & Francis, 2006. Reprinted by permission of the publisher (Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals)); pp29–30, 43 Extracts from 2011 Field Research on Steps to English Proficiency by Jang, E. E., Cummins, J., Wagner, M. Stille, S., Dunlop, M. and Starkey, J.. © Queen’s Printers for Ontario, 2011. Reproduced by permission of Eunice Jang, Jim Cummins and Ontario Ministry of Education; pp.36–7 Adapted from Table 11.1 from Program Evaluation in Language Education by Richard Kiely and Pauline Rea-Dickins, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan; p.40 Extract from �Teacher practices and perspectives for developing academic language’ by Jeff Zwiers, International Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 17 (1), 2007. © John Wiley and Sons. Reproduced by permission of John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; pp.41–2 Extract from �Language, Literacy, Content, and (Pop) Culture: Challenges for ESL Students in Mainstream Courses’ by Pa