Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices - Softcover

Brown, H. Douglas; Brown, H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134860225 ISBN 13: 9780134860220

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2018

Synopsis

Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices is designed to offer a comprehensive survey of essential principles and tools for second language assessment. Its first and second editions have been successfully used in teacher-training courses, teacher certification curricula, and TESOL master of arts programs. As the third in a trilogy of teacher education textbooks, it is designed to follow H. Douglas Brown’s other two books, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (sixth edition, Pearson Education, 2014) and Teaching by Principles(fourth edition, Pearson Education, 2015). References to those two books are made throughout the current book. Language Assessment features uncomplicated prose and a systematic, spiraling organization. Concepts are introduced with practical examples, understandable explanations, and succinct references to supportive research. The research literature on language assessment can be quite complex and assume that readers have technical knowledge and experience in testing. By the end of Language Assessment, however, readers will have gained access to this not-so-frightening field. They will have a working knowledge of a number of useful, fundamental principles of assessment and will have applied those principles to practical classroom contexts. They will also have acquired a storehouse of useful tools for evaluating and designing practical, effective assessment techniques for their classrooms.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. H. Douglas Brown, professor emeritus at San Francisco State University, has written books and articles on second language acquisition, language pedagogy, and language assessment. A past TESOL president and recipient of TESOL’s Alatis Award for Distinguished Service, Dr. Brown has spoken to language teacher audiences around the world.

Dr. Priyanvada Abeywickrama, an associate professor in the MA-TESOL program at San Francisco State University, has trained teachers in Sri Lanka and the United States. She specializes in language assessment and is a frequent presenter at TESOL, AAAL, and the Language Testing Research Colloquium.

From the Back Cover

Language Assessment provides a clear, comprehensive survey of the essential principles of assessing second language learning, along with specific descriptions of how to design student assessment

procedures. The third edition has been revised to include research updates, a new section on the use of rubrics, a description of evaluation beyond letter grading and numerical scoring, and a reorganization of chapters.

Features

• Fundamental principles for evaluating and designing classroom-based assessment procedures, including practical examples at multiple ability levels and skills

• Systematic treatment of assessing all four language skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing–as well as assessing grammatical and vocabulary knowledge

• Thorough description of standards-based testing, standardized testing, and rubrics-based assessment

• Classroom exercises, suggested further readings, glossary of terminology, and appendix of commercially available tests 

New Features in the Third Edition

• Updated references and descriptions of recent advances in language assessment

• A new chapter on alternatives to letter grading and numerical scoring

• An update on the rapidly changing landscape of standards-based assessment

Also available by H. Douglas Brown

Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Sixth Edition Print Book 978-0-13-304194-1

eText 978-0-13-304193-4

Teaching by Principles, Fourth Edition (with Heekyeong Lee) Print Book 978-0-13-392585-2

eText 978-0-13-392606-4

Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English Print Book 978-0-13-041392-5

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0134860225
• ISBN 13: 9780134860220
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400