Tests that Second Language Teachers Make and Use

✍ Scribed by Greta Gorsuch (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 556
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Classroom tests are an everyday feature of second and foreign language classrooms worldwide. Teachers spend a lot of time and energy making and using tests, and learners spend of lot of time and energy taking them. Nonetheless, such assessments are under-studied, as they are considered routine. This volume illuminates this little-researched area. Featuring fifteen classroom language tests made and used by Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish teachers, the book includes parallel teacher commentary and testing content chapters that transparently probe the teachers processes of making and using their tests. Rather than view teachers tests as poor shadows of what professional test writers do, this work identifies the reasoning behind teachers tests. In addition, focused testing content chapters take examples directly from the actual tests and the accompanying teacher commentary. This book is an accessible, applied resource for second and foreign language teachers, language program administrators working with teachers, students in teacher preparation and enrichment programs, and scholars in language teaching, learning, and testing.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Tests and Teachers, Tests and Teaching • Greta Gorsuch
2. A Framework to Probe Tests that Second Language Teachers Make, Score, and Use • Greta Gorsuch
3. Criterion-referenced Tests and Performance Tests • Greta Gorsuch
4. The Tests
Chinese
A Chinese Achievement Test for Intermediate College-level Learners • Kai-Ying Hsu
English
A Vocabulary Quiz for ESL Learners at an Intensive English Language School • Dale T. Griffee
A Simple Speaking Test for an English-language University Communication Class • Myles Grogan
An English as a Foreign Language Test for Reading, Writing, and Cultural Diversity Awareness for High School Students • Juliana Jandre & Vander Viana
A Final Exam on Contextual English Grammar for Pre-service Teachers of English • Ferit Kılıçkaya
A Speaking Skills Test for High School Leamers of English in Southern Tyrol • Gisela Mayr
An English Collocation Knowledge Test for College-level Leamers and Pre- and In-service Teachers • Sakae Onoda
Providing an Oral Summary of a Written Text as a Mid-semester and Final Test • Meredith Stephens & Meagan Kaiser
French
An Oral VoiceThread Test for First-semester French Language Leamers in a U.S. University • Beatriz García Glick
German
A Speaking Fluency Test for Intermediate-level German Using a Rubric Based on Grice’s Conversational Maxims • Annis N. Shaver
Italian
A Multiliteracies-oriented Project-based Assessment for Intermediate Foreign Language Italian Classes • Borbala Gaspar & Margherita Berti
Japanese
An End of Chapter Quiz and a Final Examination for Beginning-level Japanese Language Learners • Taichi Yarnashita
Russian
A Written and Oral Russian Achievement Test for Beginning College-level Learners • Irina Drigalenko
Spanish
La Historia De La Pola: An Achievement Test for Original Contentbased Materials for Beginning Learners of Spanish • Yesica Amaya
A Final Project PerfOlmance Test for a Spanish Conversation Class at a Korean University • Maria Teresa Martinez-Garcia
5. Communicative Competence and Language Use Description Frameworks and Second Language Tests • Greta Gorsuch
6. Practical Methods for Validating and Improving Tests • Greta Gorsuch
7. Practical Methods for Setting Cut Scores and Making Decisions • Greta Gorsuch
8. Practical Methods for Using Tests for Teaching and Learning • Greta Gorsuch
References
Index