The Concise Companion to Language Assessment

Antony John Kunnan is a specialist in language assessment research. He has held numerous professorships in California, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. He has published widely in journals and edited books on validation and fairness, statistical considerations, and language policy and practice for immigration and citizenship. He was the founding Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly, the Chief Editor of Journal of Asia TEFL the founding President of the Asian Association for Language Assessment, and the past President of the International Language Testing Association.

About the editor

About the contributors

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Theme 1: Fundamental considerations

1 How to conceptualize and implement a language assessment, Lyle Bachman and Barbara Damböck

2 Learning-oriented language assessment, James Enos Purpura

3 Assessing Integrated skills, Alister Cumming

4 Dynamic assessment in the classroom, Matthew Poehner

5 Designing evaluations for validation of language assessments, Carol A. Chapelle, Erik Voss and Haeun Kim

6 Fairness and justice in language assessment, Antony John Kunnan

7 Statistics and software for test revisions, Yo In’nami and Rie Koizumi

8 Language assessment and artificial intelligence, Erik Voss

Theme 2: Assessing Language skills and resources

9 Assessing listening, Elvis Wagner

10 Assessing speaking, Barry O’Sullivan

11 Assessing reading, William Grabe and Xiangying Jiang

12 Assessing writing, Cecilia Guanfang Zhao

13 Assessing the linguistic resources of meaningful communication, James Enos Purpura and Saerhim Oh

14 Assessing vocabulary, John Read

15 Assessing pronunciation, Talia Isaacs

16 Assessing intercultural competence and pragmatics, Carsten Roever

Theme 3: Assessment development and evaluation

17 English as Lingua Franca, Jennifer Jenkins and Constant Leung

18 Scenario-based language assessment, Heidi Liu Banerjee

19 Adapting or developing source materials for listening and reading tests, Anthony Green

20 Automated writing assessment, Sara T. Cushing and Sha Liu

Theme 4: Assessment contexts

21 Classroom-based assessment issues for language teacher education, Constant Leung

22 Assessing young language learners, Mikyung Kim Wolf

23 Monitoring progress in the classroom, Matthew E. Poehner and Rama Mathew

24 Diagnostic feedback in the 21st century technology-rich classroom, Eunhee Jang, Maryam Wagner, Liam Hannah, and Hyunah Kim

25 Evolution and future trends in tests of English for university admissions, Xiaoming Xi, Brent Bridgman and Cathy Wendler

26 Assessing health and other professionals, Lynda Taylor and John Pill

27 Acoustic and temporal analysis for assessing speaking, Okim Kang and Lucy Pickering

Theme 5: Assessment for immigration and citizenship

28 Language testing for residence and citizenship in Europe: Justification, consequences and debate, Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen

29 Language assessment for immigration in Australia: Test policy-discourse entanglements and their ethical implications, Kellie Frost

30 U.S. immigration, citizenship, and the Naturalization Test, Antony John Kunnan

Theme 6: Qualitative research methods

31 Introspective methods, Miyuki Sasaki and Yuhang Hu

32 Test-taking strategies, Yuyang Cai

33 Consequences, impact, washback, Liying Cheng

34 Language testing in the dock, Glenn Fulcher

Theme 7: Quantitative research methods

35 Historical overview of Classical Theory - reliability, James Dean Brown

36 Classical Test Theory reliability, Yasuyo Sawaki

37 Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Score Interpretations in language assessments, Ikkyu Choi

38 Exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, Gary Ockey

39 Item Response Theory in language assessment, Shangchao Min and Lianzhen He

40 Many-facet Rasch Analysis for Evaluating Second Language Tests, Khaled Barkaoui

41 Psychometric considerations for computer-adaptive language testing, Steven W. Nydick, J.R. Lockwood, and Mancy Liao

Theme 8: The role of technology

42 Computer-Assisted language testing: Focus on attributes, values and key research, Ruslan Suvorov, Yasin Karatay and Volker Hegelheimer

43 Computer-adaptive language testing: Focus on language tests, Ramsey Cardwell, Ben Naismith, and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville

44 Automated writing evaluation in high-stakes testing, Jill Burstein and Yigal Attali

45 Detecting plagiarism and cheating, Ardeshir Geranpayeh

Index