TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paran,Amos
AU  - Sercu,Lies
TI  - Testing the Untestable in Language Education
SN  - 9781847692658 (pbk)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Multicultural education
KW  - Communicative competence
N1  - Volume 17 in the New Perspectives on Language and Education series; Includes bibliographical references; "The testing and assessment of language competence continues to be a much debated issue in foreign language teaching and research. This book is the first one to address the testing of four important dimensions of foreign language education which have been left largely unconsidered: learner autonomy, intercultural competence, literature and literary competence, and the integration of content and language learning. Each area is considered through a theoretical framework, followed by two empirical studies, raising questions of importance to all language teachers: How can one test literary competence? Can intercultural competence be measured? What about the integrated assessment of content-and-language in CLIL and teaching? Is progress in autonomous learning skill gaugeable? The book constitutes essential reading for anyone interested in the testing and assessment of seemingly largely untestable aspects of foreign language competence." (Book Cover); CONTENTS; 1. More than Language: The Additional Faces of Testing and Assessment in Language Learning and Teaching /; Amos Paran; PART 1: INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE; 2. Assessing Intercultural Competence: More Questions than Answers /; Lies Sercu; 3. Interculturally Savvy or Not? Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence in the Context of Learning for Business /; Kaisu Korhonen; 4. Eliciting the Intercultural in Foreign Language Education at School /; Anthony J. Liddicoat and Angela Scarino; PART 2: AUTONOMY; 5. Measuring Autonomy: Should We Put Our Ability to the Test? /; Phil Benson; 6. Assessment of Autonomy or Assessment for Autonomy? Evaluating Learner Autonomy for Formative Purposes /; Terry Lamb; 7. Learners Reflecting on Learning: Evaluation versus Testing in Autonomous Language Learning /; Leni Dam and Leinhard Legenhausen; PART 3: LITERATURE; 8. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Dilemmas of Testing Language and Literature /; Amos Paran; 9. Crossing the Bridge from Appreciative Reader to Reflective Writer: The Assessment of Creative Process /; Jane Spiro; 10. The Taming of the Immeasurable: An Empirical Assessment of Language Awareness /; Hui-Wei Lin; PART 4: LANGUAGE AND CONTENT; 11. Assessing Language and Content: A Functional Perspective /; Bernard Mohan, Constant Leung, and Tammy Slater; 12. Teachers and Texts: Judging What English Language Learners Know From What They Say /; Marylin Low; 13. Towards Systematic and Sustained Formative Assessment of Causal Explanations in Oral Interactions /; Tammy Slater and Bernard Mohan; Bibliography
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