Overview
- Explains how L2 writing assessment took its current form
- Concerns the social uses of assessments as well as their technical qualities
- Provides a rich understanding of how language assessments are shaped by social and practical pressures
Part of the book series: Research and Practice in Language Assessment (RPLA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it). It takes a historical view of how assessment developers have made those choices, how contemporary practices emerged, and of alternative techniques that have risen and fallen over time.
The three sections each tackle one of these choices. The first considers the social functions that define L2 writing and assessment; the second relates how assessment tasks have adapted to changing conceptions of languages, writing, and assessment; and the third explores how scoring systems have evolved. Each section brings the reader up to date with current issues confronting writing assessment (both in large-scale testing and in language classrooms) before considering the new opportunities and challenges of the digital age. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in language assessment, language education, and applied linguistics.Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anthony Green is Professor in Language Assessment and Director of the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He conducts training courses and has served as a consultant on language assessment projects around the world. His books include Exploring Language Assessment and Testing (2020) and Language Functions Revisited (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: L2 Writing Assessment
Book Subtitle: An Evolutionary Perspective
Authors: Anthony Green
Series Title: Research and Practice in Language Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15011-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15010-4Published: 08 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15013-5Published: 08 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15011-1Published: 07 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-7757
Series E-ISSN: 2731-7765
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 271
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Education, general, Language Acquisition and Development