ASSESSING YOUNG LANGUAGE LEARNERS

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It begins by considering why we need a special book on young learner assessment, and describes the nature of young learner language learning. The assessment approach is task-based and is centred around tasks and techniques suitable for young learners, with particular emphasis on classroom assessment. Oral language assessment and reading and writing assessment are addressed in separate chapters, as is the large-scale testing of young learners. Underpinned by theory, the book is full of practical guidelines, and draws on examples of assessment contexts, issues and practices from around the world. Assessing Young Language Learners was winner of the Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize in 2006.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Series editors' preface (p. ix)
• Acknowledgments (p. xii)
• 1 A special case for young learner language assessment (p. 1)
• 2 Young learners and language learning (p. 26)
• 3 Research into the assessment of young language learners (p. 61)
• 4 Assessing language use through tasks (p. 97)
• 5 Classroom assessment of language use (p. 140)
• 6 Assessing oral language (p. 176)
• 7 Assessing reading and writing (p. 217)
• 8 Evaluating young learners' performance and progress (p. 264)
• 9 Testing young language learners through large-scale tests (p. 315)
• 10 The way forward (p. 352)
• References (p. 364)
• Index (p. 379)
• Publishers' acknowledgments (p. 385)