Language Testing: Matching Assessment Procedures with Language Knowledge

Abstract

(from the introduction) deals with 2nd language assessment, discussing the close link between the definitions of language knowledge and the procedures used to measure it / identifies and describes 4 eras in language testing [integrative, communicative, performance testing, alternative], each reflecting a different definition of language knowledge of the time, and the specific measurement procedures that matched it / describes a . . . multidimensional assessment battery which has been recently introduced in Israel for assessing Hebrew language acquisition by immigrant children in a school context (from the chapter) demonstrate the benefits that general educational testing can obtain from the broad areas of research and development of language testing, especially those of performance and communicative testing