Changing Language Assessment

Sahbi Hidri is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Tunis University, Tunisia, and Senior Specialist in Assessment at Abu Dhabi Women's College, UAE.

Part One: Role of Assessment and Learning Outcomes.- Chapter 1: New Changes in Assessment (Sahbi Hidri).- Chapter 2: The Pedagogic Role of Assessment in Improving Learner Outcomes (Ekaterina Popkova).- Chapter 3: Integrated Performance Assessment (Gabriel Díaz Maggioli).- Part Two: Challenges in Assessing the Production Skills.- Chapter 4: Rubric-Based Assessment of the Productive Skills (Reza Vahdani Sanavi).- Chapter 5: Can Teacher and Peer Formative Feedback Enhance L2 University Students' Oral Presentation Skills? (Diana Al Jahromi).- Chapter 6: Summary Writing as a Form of Integrated Skills Assessment in Tertiary Settings (Elena Khvatova and Elena Krutskikh).- Part Three: Test-Taking Strategies in Alternative and Standard Forms of Assessment.- Chapter 7: Classroom-Based Assessment in Multi-Exam Preparation Classes: Choosing Alternative Assessment Techniques (Irini-Renika Papakemmenou).- Chapter 8: Readability of Syntactic Constructions for Transparency and Reliability of Input Texts for Unified State Exams in English (Elena Varlamova and Olga Safonkina).- Part Four: Teacher Feedback and Challenges for Assessing Interactional and Intercultural Competence.- Chapter 9: Feedback on Evaluation: Teacher-Trainees' Preferences for Explicit Preferences for Explicit Evaluation in Post-Lesson Discussions (Irina Ivanova).- Chapter 10: Integrating Teacher Feedback and Assessment to Improve L2 Writing (Viktoria Osidak, Tamara Kavytska and Viktoria Drobotun).- Chapter 11: Strategy to Assess L2 Interactional Competence of University Students: Ukrainian Context (Olesia Liubashenko and Tamara Kavytska).- Chapter 12: Integrating a 3D Tool of Assessing Intercultural Competence in Teacher Education (Olga Kvasova and Yuliia Trykashna).- Part Five: Challenges in Formative Assessment.- Chapter 13: Enhancing Grammar Learning through Assessment at Tertiary Level (Viktoriya Osidak and Olha Drahinda).- Chapter 14: The Impacts of Explicit Teaching and Assessment of Grammar on Tertiary Level Students in an EFL Context (Haya Al Nuaimi).