Global Perspectives on Language Assessment: Research, Theory, and Practice

The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives. Covering a broad range of key topics―including scoring processes, test development, and student and teacher perspectives―contributors offer a comprehensive overview of the landscape of language assessment and discuss the consequences and impact for learners, teachers, learning programs, and society. Focusing on the assessment of language proficiency, this volume provides an original compendium of cutting-edge research that will benefit TESOL and TEFL students, language assessment scholars, and language teachers.

Spiros Papageorgiou is Managing Senior Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service.

Kathleen M. Bailey is Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA.