Description Language Assessment describes and explains all of the relevant concepts in language assessment as well as providing examples of how these concepts can be put into practice.
Best-selling author H. Douglas Brown offers a clear, authoritative manual of testing and assessment in the second language classroom. Language Assessment looks at essential principles for assessment, as well as the critical tools that teachers need for fair, effective evaluation.
Table of Contents
1. Testing, Assessing, and Teaching
2. Principles of Language Assessment
3. Designing Classroom Language Tests
4. Standardized Testing
5. Standards-Based Assessment
6. Assessing Listening
7. Assessing Speaking
8. Assessing Reading
9. Assessing Writing
10. Beyond Tests: Alternatives in Assessment
11. Grading and Student Evaluation