Sentence examples for development of language assessments from inspiring English sources
In Europe, Weir (2005) advocates a socio-cognitive approach to the design and development of language assessments, which views contextual elements as an important determinant factor in establishing "context validity", that is, "the extent to which the choice of tasks in a test is representative of the larger universe of tasks of which the test is assumed to be a sample" (p. 19).
Researchers in the field of language testing and assessment have long recognized that context plays an essential role in the development and use of language assessments.
In line with the developments in the field of foreign or second language teaching where computers are being highly favored to assist language teaching and learning, the field of language assessment is also increasingly making use of computers.
In this paper, we have described the development of classroom language benchmark assessments for Japanese teachers of EFL with an emphasis on the theoretical rationale for their design.
This study aims to design a morphosyntactic profile of Spanish language development, following the methodology of The Language Assessment, Remediation, and Screening Procedure (LARSP).
Using a newly developed Assessment of the Development of Russian Language (ORRIA), we investigated differences in language development between rural vs. urban Russian-speaking children (n = 100 with a mean age of 6.75) subdivided into groups with and without developmental language disorders.
(See Sasaki, 2008 for further details regarding the historical development of English language education and assessment in Japan since the nineteenth century).
With this suggestion in mind, the design and the development of our own version of a classroom language assessment benchmark is described in the following section.
Current interests: second language acquisition of vocabulary; curricular implications of low, mid and high stakes activities to understand writing in a second language; development of intercultural competence, assessment.
