Liz Hamp-Lyons

Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume to focus on the assessment of second language writing. The collection as a whole provides coverage of all issues in second language writing assessment, starting from the context in which and for which assessment must occur, moving through the aspects of decision-making and design in a writing assessment program, and then considering how the need to evaluate any program on assessment can be carried out. After a discussion of issues of public reporting, an area which will receive increasing attention in the next few years, the volume closes with a discussion of what new issues and answers the future may bring. The book reflects the current belief in direct writing assessment in second language writing assessment. While it is often expected that those working with ESL students will focus on language error, throughout the book themes of needs, attitudes, ideas and content dominate. For second language writers the use of written language to learn, to create knowledge and to share ideas and beliefs are vitally important. Additionally, issues of cross-cultural academic literacy, practical information on criteria and scoring models for use with ESL writers, and research on the efficacy and effects of various assessment models are provided. The book blends theory and practice in a way which offers all those who are concerned with the writing skills of nonnative users of English an invaluable resource.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780893917920
• ISBN-10: 0893917923
• Artikelnr.: 21785023

Autorenporträt

Liz Hamp-Lyons

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Series Preface Introduction Basic Concepts PART I: THE
WRITER Assessment by Misconception: Cultural Influences and Intellectual
Traditions Reading the World Differently: A Cross-Cultural Approach to
Writing Assessment The Writer's Knowledge and Knowledge of the Writer PART
II: THE TASK ESL Writing Assessments: Contradictions and Resolutions
Pre-text: Task-Related Influences of the Writer PART III: THE READER
Holistic Assessment: What Goes on in the Raters' Minds? Reconstructing
"Academic Writing Proficiency" Statistical Support for Training ESL
Composition Rating PART IV: RELATING THE ASSESSMENT TO THE ACADEMIC
COMMUNITY Faculty Assessment of ESL Student Literacy Skills: Implications
for Writing Assessment Error Gravity: Faculty Response to Errors in the
Written Discourse of Nonnative Speakers of English Placement of ESL/EFL
Undergraduate Writers in College-Level Writing Programs
Linguistic/Rhetorical Measures for Evaluating ESL Writing Using Performance
Assessment Instruments with ESL Student Writers Scoring Procedures for ESL
Contexts PART V: ACCOUNTABILITY Issues in Evaluating and Maintaining an ESL
Writing Assessment Program Program Evaluation Procedures: Reporting the
Program Publicly within the Political Context CONCLUSION Issues and
Directions in Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts
Glossary Contributors Author Index Subject Index