Post-admission Language Assessment of University Students
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Beschreibung
English-medium universities around the world face real challenges in ensuring that incoming students have the language and literacy skills they need to cope with the demands of their degree programmes. One response has been a variety of institutional initiatives to assess students after admission, in order to identify those with significant needs and advise them on how to enhance their academic language ability. This volume brings together papers from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Oman, South Africa and the United States, written by language assessment specialists who discuss issues in the design and implementation of these post-admission assessments in their own institutions. A major theme running through the book is the need to evaluate the validity of such assessments not just on their technical quality but on their impact, in terms of giving students access to effective means of developing their language skills and ultimately enhancing their academic achievement.
English-medium universities around the world face real challenges in ensuring that incoming students have the language and literacy skills they need to cope with the demands of their degree programmes. One response has been a variety of institutional initiatives to assess students after admission, in order to identify those with significant needs and advise them on how to enhance their academic language ability. This volume brings together papers from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Oman, South Africa and the United States, written by language assessment specialists who discuss issues in the design and implementation of these post-admission assessments in their own institutions. A major theme running through the book is the need to evaluate the validity of such assessments not just on their technical quality but on their impact, in terms of giving students access to effective means of developing their language skills and ultimately enhancing their academic achievement.
Addresses a major challenge for English-medium higher education Offers a broad international perspective on the issues Written by leading experts in academic language assessment Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
John Read
Themen in »Post-admission Language Assessment of University Students«
Academic language ability Construct refinement in tests of academic literacy English as a medium of instruction English proficiency development English-as-a-lingua-franca First-year engineering Language test-taker feedback Language testing tertiary education Post-admission assessments Post-admission diagnostic assessment in a Canadian university Post-admission language assessment in Hong Kong Post-entry language assessment Post-entry screening TALPS Test of Academic Literacy for Postgraduate Students