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Book: Assessing Speaking

Chapter: 1. Classroom Assessment and a Learning-oriented Approach to Language Testing

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.40211

Blurb:

Chapter 1 describes a range of classroom assessment practices in various educational contexts (e.g. School-based assessment in Hong Kong, KEPT in Japan) as well as learning-oriented approaches to language testing taken by international and national language examination boards (e.g. Cambridge English, Trinity, Eiken Foundation of Japan, Language Training and Testing Center in Taiwan).

Chapter Contributors

  • Fumiyo Nakatsuhara (fumiyo.nakatsuhara@beds.ac.uk - fnakatsuhara) 'University of Bedfordshire'
  • Vivien Berry (Vivien.Berry@britishcouncil.org - vberry) 'British Council'
  • Chihiro Inoue (cherylmarue@gmail.com - cinoue7474)
  • Nahal Khabbazbashi (Nahal.Khabbazbashi@beds.ac.uk - nkhabbazbashi) 'University of Bedfordshire'