Assessment in the Second Language Writing Classroom

✍ Scribed by Deborah Crusan

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Assessment in the Second Language Writing Classroom is a teacher and prospective teacher-friendly book, uncomplicated by the language of statistics. The book is for those who teach and assess second language writing in several different contexts: the IEP, the developmental writing classroom, and the sheltered composition classroom. In addition, teachers who experience a mixed population or teach cross-cultural composition will find the book a valuable resource. Other books have thoroughly covered the theoretical aspects of writing assessment, but none have focused as heavily as this book does on pragmatic classroom aspects of writing assessment. Further, no book to date has included an in-depth examination of the machine scoring of writing and its effects on second language writers. Crusan not only makes a compelling case for becoming knowledgeable about L2 writing assessment but offers the means to do so. Her highly accessible, thought-provoking presentation of the conceptual and practical dimensions of writing assessment, both for the classroom and on a larger scale, promises to engage readers who have previously found the technical detail of other works on assessment off-putting, as well as those who have had no previous exposure to the study of assessment at all.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1. Historical and Theoretical Contexts of Second Language Writing Assessment
2. An Overview of the Tools of Writing Assessment
3. Designing Assignments and Rubrics
4. Biases in Writing Assessment: What Are They and What Can We Do about Them?
5. Large-Scale Writing Assessment and Its Influences on L2 Writing
6. Innovative Technology in the L2 Writing Classroom
7. Looking Beyond: What Can We Expect of Writing Assessment in the Future? The Machine Scoring of Essays
Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here?
Appendix 1
References
Index