TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benson,Phil
AU  - Dam,Leni
AU  - Korhonen,Kaisu
AU  - Lamb,Terry
AU  - Legenhausen,Lienhard
AU  - Leung,Constant
AU  - Liddicoat,Anthony J.
AU  - Lin,Hui-Wei
AU  - Low,Marylin
AU  - Mohan,Bernard
AU  - Paran,Amos
AU  - Scarino,Angela
AU  - Sercu,Lies
AU  - Slater,Tammy
AU  - Spiro,Jane
TI  - Testing the Untestable in Language Education
T2  - New Perspectives on Language and Education
SN  - 9781847692665
AV  - P53.63 .T47 2010eb
U1  - 418.0076 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - Communicative competence
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Multicultural education
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - assessment
KW  - content and language learning
KW  - foreign language teaching
KW  - language competence
KW  - learner autonomy
KW  - literary competence
KW  - testing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; 1. More than Language: The Additional Faces of Testing and Assessment in Language Learning and Teaching --; Part 1: Intercultural Competence --; 2. Assessing Intercultural Competence: More Questions than Answers --; 3. Interculturally Savvy or Not? Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence in the Context of Learning for Business --; 4. Eliciting the Intercultural in Foreign Language Education at School --; Part 2: Autonomy --; 5. Measuring Autonomy: Should We Put Our Ability to the Test? --; 6. Assessment of Autonomy or Assessment for Autonomy? Evaluating Learner Autonomy for Formative Purposes --; 7. Learners Reflecting on Learning: Evaluation versus Testing in Autonomous Language Learning --; Part 3: Literature --; 8. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Dilemmas of Testing Language and Literature --; 9. Crossing the Bridge from Appreciative Reader to Reflective Writer: The Assessment of Creative Process --; 10. The Taming of the Immeasurable: An Empirical Assessment of Language Awareness --; Part 4: Language and Content --; 11. Assessing Language and Content: A Functional Perspective --; 12. Teachers and Texts: Judging What English Language Learners Know From What They Say --; 13. Towards Systematic and Sustained Formative Assessment of Causal Explanations in Oral Interactions; restricted access
N2  - The testing and assessment of language competence continues to be a much debated issue in foreign language teaching and research. This book is the first one to address the testing of four important dimensions of foreign language education which have been left largely unconsidered: learner autonomy, intercultural competence, literature and literary competence, and the integration of content and language learning. Each area is considered through a theoretical framework, followed by two empirical studies, raising questions of importance to all language teachers: How can one test literary competence? Can intercultural competence be measured? What about the integrated assessment of content-and-language in CLIL and teaching? Is progress in autonomous learning skill gaugeable? The book constitutes essential reading for anyone interested in the testing and assessment of seemingly largely untestable aspects of foreign language competence
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847692672
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781847692672
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781847692672/original
ER  -