Format:
1 Online-Ressource (280 Seiten)
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Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350071377
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9781350071353
Content:
"Highlighting marginalized but significant perspectives about the sociopolitical essence of English language tests and testing processes worldwide, this book explores the social considerations of testing theories and practices from a critical perspective. Investigating concerns surrounding power inequalities, The Sociopolitics of English Language Testing takes a socially-situated view of language assessment, bringing sociopolitical understandings of language teaching, learning, and assessment to the forefront in the field. Within the broader discussion of the politics of test use, an international team of language and education experts address the issues of ideology, diversity, power, and dominance in English language testing. Through socially-sensitive theoretical as well as empirical discussion and investigation of English language testing, this book offers valuable insights, not only to applied linguists and the language education community who have focused on positivistic and cognitively-oriented conceptions of language testing, but to anyone who wishes to venture beyond the traditional bounds of the field."--
Content:
Alliant TESOL Program Service-Learning IntegrationImplications of Socially Situated Language Assessment for Language Education; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Moving beyond Deficit Positioning of Linguistically Diverse Test Takers: Bi/Multilingualism and the Essence of Validity; Introduction; Defining the Test Taker; Genealogical Historical Approaches to Validity; Essential Shifts; Summary Thoughts; Part 2: The Politics of Testing in the Non-English-Speaking World; Chapter 6: The Coloniality of English Language Testing; Introduction; Coloniality as Lens
Content:
Critical Consciousness, Teaching for Liberation, and English Language TestingConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Language Testing in Service-Learning: A Critical Approach to Socially Situated Language in Use; Introduction; Service-Learning: One Approach to Civic Engagement; Socially Situated Assessment of Language and Interculturality; Assessment in TESOL/TFL Service-Learning for ESL/EFL Learners; Assessment in Service-Learning TESOL Teacher Education; A Critical Service-Learning Course for Japanese International Students in California
Content:
Isolating the Effect of Remoteness from Attendance on AchievementInvestigating Achievement Rates in English Foreign Language Contexts; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Where Language is Beside the Point: English Language Testing for Mexicano Students in the Southwestern United States; Introduction; Language Ideologies and English Language Testing in the United States; English Language Testing in the United States for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanos: A Genealogy; Transcoloniality and Language in US Schools
Content:
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; References; Foreword; Testing Theory Is Predominately on the Periphery of the Social Consequences of Testing, but It Is Moving In; A Guide to Democratic and Linguistically and Culturally Affirming English Language Testing; References; Part 1: The Ideologies of Testing in English-Speaking Countries; Chapter 1: Who Me? Hailing Individuals as Subjects: Standardized Literacy Testing as an Instrument of Neoliberal Ideology; Standardized Literacy Testing, Schooling, and the Reconstruction of Subjectivities; Classrooms as Complex, Dialogic Sites
Content:
The Influence of Policy: Prescribing Texts and IdentitiesZamzam's Story; Whose Reading Counts?; The Continuing Possibility of Resistant Readings; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Standardized Testing and School Achievement: The Case of Indigenous-Language-Speaking Students in Remote Australia; Introduction; Background; Evidence-Based Education; Research Hypotheses; The Dataset; Strengths and Limitations of the Dataset; Analyzing the Influence of Attendance on NAPLaN Achievement; Descriptive Statistics; Analyzing the Relationship between Attendance and NAPLaN Achievement
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350071346
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The sociopolitics of English language testing London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 9781350071346
Additional Edition:
ISBN 135007134X
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350071377
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