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Koh, Kim; Burke, Lydia E. Carol-Ann; Luke, Allan; Gong, Wengao; Tan, Charlene – Language Teaching Research, 2018
A teacher's assessment literacy refers to her or his demonstrated understanding of the principles behind selecting and designing tasks, judging student work, and interpreting and using assessment data to support student learning. This study examines the development of the task design aspect of assessment literacy in 12 Chinese language teachers as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Teaching Skills, Teacher Competencies
Wilang, Jeffrey Dawala; Teo, Adisa – Online Submission, 2012
This paper focuses on designing a comprehensibility test and a questionnaire for spoken world Englishes in Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, and utilizing the test to investigate the comprehension of Burmese, Cambodians, Indonesians, Laotians, Thais and Vietnamese. We reviewed the demarcation of users of English based on Kachru's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Lanteigne, Betty – TESL-EJ, 2006
Many English tests based on Western culture are inappropriate for regions where English use differs from that of Europe and North America. In these non-Western settings, it is desirable that English assessments be based on real-world English use. Therefore, identifying tasks of non-Western English language use is a beginning step in developing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Semi Structured Interviews