The Impact of the Cefr on Language Examinations in Local Contexts

ISBN-13: 9783631718292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 180 str.

Jana Beresova

Opis

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the process of linking local language examinations to the common reference levels of language proficiency. It encourages local examination providers to assure quality in high-stakes testing, presenting samples and advice on how to improve the effectiveness of local examinations.

Spis treści

Fundamental issues related to communicative language testing - Social consequences of high-stakes testing - The impact of the CEFR on language testing - Five interrelated sets of procedures of the linking process - English leaving-examinations in local contexts - Four communicative language skills - Language in use - Item-writing

O autorze

Jana Béresová is an Associate Professor, teaching at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education, Trnava University in Slovakia. She is intensively engaged in teacher training to improve communicative language teaching and testing. Her participation in the ECML training and consultancy programme enables her to optimize local examinations.