Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices Paperback -

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Language Assessment provides a clear, comprehensive survey of the essential principles of assessing second language learning, along with specific descriptions of how to design student assessment procedures. The third edition has been revised to include research updates, a new section on the use of rubrics, a description of evaluation beyond letter grading and numerical scoring, and a reorganization of chapters. Features - Fundamental principles for evaluating and designing classroom-based assessment procedures, including practical examples at multiple ability levels and skills - Systematic treatment of assessing all four language skills-listening, speaking, reading, and writing-as well as assessing grammatical and vocabulary knowledge - Thorough description of standards-based testing, standardized testing, and rubrics-based assessment - Classroom exercises, suggested further readings, glossary of terminology, and appendix of commercially available tests New Features in the Third Edition - Updated references and descriptions of recent advances in language assessment - A new chapter on alternatives to letter grading and numerical scoring - An update on the rapidly changing landscape of standards-based assessment Also available by H. Douglas Brown Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Sixth Edition Print Book 978-0-13-304194-1 eText 978-0-13-304193-4 Teaching by Principles, Fourth Edition (with Heekyeong Lee) Print Book 978-0-13-392585-2 eText 978-0-13-392606-4 Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English Print Book 978-0-13-041392-5